We have rolled out three updates (version 1.1.1, 1.1.2 and 1.1.3) for both Aldiko Book Reader Premium and Aldiko Book Reader Applications over the last few weeks. New features in the updates include:

Full Text Search

This allows you to search words globally within a book.

Dictionary Lookup

With the dictionary feature, you can look up a word in dictionary, on Wikipedia or Google.

If your device has a keyboard, you can even start typing while reading a book to  bring up the dictionary dialog automatically.

Option to Lock Display Orientation

With the lock display orientation feature, you can lock the display in either portrait or landscape view.

Option to Set Text Alignment

Now you can set your text alignment to left, justify or right.

Go To

This allows you to quickly access any position within a book. It’s very useful when your book has no table of content.

Option to Enable/Disable CSS Style Sheet

As always, please feel free to provide feedback to help make Aldiko better.

Over the past few weeks, we have been quietly releasing updates and incrementally improving the application based on user feedback. Here are some of the main improvements:

- Keep the display from going to sleep while reading.
- Option to turn pages back/forward using the volume up/down keys. This can be toggled on or off in the settings page.
- Fixed the issue where cover images would sometime show up in the phone’s picture gallery.
- Reduced application size.
- etc.

For more details, please visit http://www.aldiko.com/changelog.txt

We thank for all the feedback given to us!

A heavily requested feature since last week is the ability to import EPUB files into your Aldiko bookshelf. We are excited to let you know that we pushed an update this morning that will enable you to do just that. Just copy your EPUB files into your SD card (in the eBooks/import/ folder), select the ‘Import’ option on the app’s home screen and it will automatically scan and import your books.

Another new feature is the ability to download EPUB books directly from the Browser. Click on any EPUB link on any webpage and you should be presented with an option to directly download the book to your Aldiko bookshelf.

We are grateful for all feedbacks that users gave to us. Please continue to send us feedbacks and help us spread the word.