Parchment Reader – Notepad, Notes & RP Library

An in-game notebook and library for writing notes, keeping character journals, and reading stories, RP material, and tactics.
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ParchmentReader-2.0.3

File nameParchmentReader-2.0.3.zip
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HelsdarHelsdar
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Oct 14, 2026
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MoP ClassicRetailClassic TBCClassic
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9170514
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R
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Supported game versions
  • 12.1.5
  • 12.1.0
  • 12.0.7
  • 5.5.4
  • 2.5.6
  • 1.15.9

What's new

Changelog

2.0.3 — 2026-10-14

  • Marked the addon compatible with Retail 12.1.5.

2.0.2 — 2026-10-10

  • Improved bookmark title and excerpt readability, with progress percentages displayed in a dedicated slot beside the title.
  • Added longer, wrapped bookmark excerpts on hover.
  • Bookmark excerpt lengths now count UTF-8 characters consistently across languages.
  • Added a theme-colored pencil for inline bookmark renaming.

2.0.1 — 2026-10-05

  • Added Custom reader transparency with a live 0–100% slider and an optional Transparent until hovered setting. Preferences persist; existing Off, Always, and Smart presets remain available. Combat transparency uses the custom amount.
  • Added a light-theme slider tooltip recommending Azeroth Glass or Transparent until hovered when high transparency makes dark text harder to read.
  • Includes the existing WoW Forever Beta compatibility for client 1.60.1 (Interface 16001) alongside the four original clients in the shared package. The new transparency update was tested in Retail; no additional Forever in-game verification is claimed for this release.

2.0.0 — 2026-10-03

  • Added Library, Favorites, and Recent views. Favorite books keep their star when moved or renamed; Recent remembers the last 20 explicitly opened books and can be cleared without changing the library or reading progress.
  • Added safe title renaming in Edit Book, preserving bookmarks, reading positions, favorites, and recent history. Titles remain unique per collection.
  • Added Light Parchment and textured Warm Parchment alongside Azeroth Glass. Themes apply live across the reader, editor, notes, and settings; the sun/moon switch can use independently chosen themes.
  • Reorganized Settings into Reading, Appearance, Controls, and General, with theme previews, a live font sample, and synchronized size fields and sliders.
  • Improved the editor's collection picker with scrolling, paging, and search for larger collection lists, while protecting open drafts during collection changes and live theme updates.
  • Added Resume Last Quick Note and its optional shortcut. Continue the same saved note in its current collection, save changes, or start a new note with protection for unsaved drafts and conflicting changes.
  • Added book, star, feather, cog, history, and bookmark icons that follow the selected theme, including Compact Mode controls and the bookmark counter.
  • Fixed stale editor confirmations so they cannot discard a newer draft.
  • Aligned bookmark previews and + Here to the first fully visible text row, including after content-search jumps; bookmark navigation restores that row.
  • Fixed Reset to Defaults during combat so a blocked reset leaves all settings unchanged.

1.3.0 — 2026-09-11

  • Added an optional Aa search scope that finds a complete phrase inside book content while title and collection search remain the default.
  • Pressing Enter opens the first visible result; opening a content-matched result with Enter or a click highlights its first matching phrase.
  • Added contextual previous/next match controls and a return action that restores the ordinary saved reading position. Search browsing never replaces reading progress.
  • Kept the content index runtime-only and lazy, so empty and metadata-only search does not read or normalize book content.
  • Corrected the starter guide for newly created profiles without changing existing starter books or user-authored books.

1.2.0 — 2026-08-28

  • Reduced the default Reader size to 720x480 and the standard minimum to 460x320, while keeping the 320x200 Compact Mode minimum.
  • Normal and Compact Mode now remember their window sizes independently.
  • Added an assignable Toggle Compact Mode action to WoW Key Bindings and the addon Settings window.
  • Added an optional Transparent background in combat setting that restores the selected Off, Always, or Smart behavior when combat ends.
  • Added a complete Brazilian Portuguese (ptBR) interface localization, manual language selection, automatic ptBR client detection, and localized AddOns metadata.
  • Fixed Reset to Defaults so leaving Compact Mode synchronizes the current reading position before restoring the standard layout.
  • Reduced repeated locale normalization while sorting large book libraries.

1.1.0 — 2026-08-22

  • Added Pin Reader to prevent accidental moving or resizing, keep the Reader available while using WoW menus, and restore it after reloads or logins.
  • The Reader and minimized launcher now remember their positions and minimized state between sessions.
  • Improved the Compact Mode header, title spacing, and window positioning.
  • Parchment Reader windows now stay below native WoW panels such as the World Map and Talents.
  • Keyboard navigation no longer takes over gameplay keys automatically. Click the book page to enable it, and click outside, press Escape, use another key, or enter combat to return keyboard control to WoW.
  • Added a setting to choose the addon interface language independently from the WoW client language: Auto, English, German, French, Spanish, or Russian.
  • Fixed Settings dropdown layering and ensured Keyboard Help and confirmation messages use the selected interface language.

1.0.0 — 2026-08-12

Initial public release.

  • Added continuous reading with automatic position restoration.
  • Added saved books, collections, search, editing, and Quick Note.
  • Added bookmarks with rename, navigation, delete, and undo support.
  • Added Compact Mode, a floating minimized launcher, reader transparency, and configurable shortcuts.
  • Added English, German, French, Russian, and Spanish interface localizations.
  • Added support for Retail, Mists of Pandaria Classic, Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary, and Classic Era clients.

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