Bahá’í Reader 0.1.9: the official bahai.org texts, offline
Bahá’í Reader, the offline prayer book and Writings reader for Linux, now reads from the source. Version 0.1.9 brings the official texts of the Bahá’í Reference Library at bahai.org into the English library, adds two big collections that weren’t in the app before, and makes the window happy at phone-like sizes.
The official text, wherever bahai.org has it
The English books and prayers now show bahai.org’s own text wherever bahai.org publishes the same passage. That covers the Hidden Words, Gleanings, Prayers and Meditations, Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh, the Kitáb-i-Íqán, the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, Some Answered Questions, Days of Remembrance, and 455 of the 472 prayers. bahai.org’s numbering, footnotes, diacritics and italics come along with it.
A prayer taken from a bahai.org book now names that book in its citation, so Copy with citation points to where the text really came from. The Riḍván messages also show the official text now; eight that bahai.org dates differently (Naw-Rúz and other dates) moved to Messages of the Universal House of Justice under their bahai.org dates.
Your saved passages, collections and reading position keep working. Every passage kept its place, so nothing you saved points at the wrong text.
New in Writings
- 515 messages of the Universal House of Justice, every one bahai.org lists, grouped by decade.
- Seven works of Shoghi Effendi: The Advent of Divine Justice, Bahá’í Administration, Citadel of Faith, God Passes By, The Promised Day Is Come, The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh and This Decisive Hour, with their footnotes and headings.
- Group by book or by author, from the list above the search box. By author lists Bahá’u’lláh, ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá, Shoghi Effendi and the Universal House of Justice, then their books.
All of it is bundled with the app. Bahá’í Reader still doesn’t connect to bahai.org, or anywhere else, to read.
Narrow windows and easier navigation
Below 700 pixels wide, the contents list and the reading pane take turns instead of squeezing together, and the window can shrink to 320 pixels. Passages now show headings like “Arabic no. 1” or “Paragraph 4”, with your position (“1 of 71”) between Previous and Next. Neither pane can be dragged so small that it disappears.
Get it
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The .deb, .rpm, .pkg.tar.zst, AppImage and Flatpak are on the v0.1.9 release, and the source is on GitHub. The bahai.org texts carry “Copyright © Bahá’í International Community” and aren’t covered by the app’s MIT license; DATA-NOTICE.md has the details. This is an independent community app.