FictionReader

Help and data controls

Support, with honest limits

Fiction Reader is maintained primarily as a personal project. Documentation and public issue reporting are available, but there is no guaranteed support service or response time.

1. Before asking for help

Check the project's README and documentation, existing GitHub issues, and the current release notes. Source adapters can fail when a fiction site changes its markup or access rules, and an account or regional restriction may be outside Fiction Reader's control.

When reporting a reproducible software problem, include the Fiction Reader version, operating system or deployment type, the action attempted, and a redacted error message. Do not attach a database, complete log archive, source cookie jar, OAuth credential, token, encryption key, private book or copyrighted chapter.

2. Contact route

General technical and policy questions may be opened in the Fiction Reader issue tracker. Public issues are visible to everyone. Do not include personal data, credentials or private library content. The user-support email displayed by Google's consent screen may also be used for a Google authorisation or privacy question.

Reports may be answered when the maintainer has time. The project does not promise individual setup help, source-site support, account recovery, legal advice, data hosting or a response deadline.

3. Remove Google Drive access or data

Stop one Fiction Reader device

  1. Open Fiction Reader.
  2. Go to the Sync settings.
  3. Turn off sync or choose the Google Drive disconnect action, where offered.

This removes or stops use of the local authorisation on that device. Other authorised devices may remain connected.

Revoke access for the Google account

  1. Open Google Account → Third-party connections.
  2. Find Fiction Reader under applications with access to the Google Account.
  3. Review its access, choose Remove access, and confirm.

Revocation prevents future Drive API access until the user authorises the app again. It does not necessarily delete files already stored in the hidden app-data folder.

Delete the hidden Drive sync data

  1. Open Google Drive settings.
  2. Choose Manage apps.
  3. Find Fiction Reader, open its options, and choose the action to delete hidden app data.
  4. Confirm only after deciding that the remote sync and recovery copy is no longer needed.
Deletion warning: removing hidden app data can prevent a new device from recovering the library state or book copies stored there. It does not delete local data from existing Fiction Reader installations.

4. Delete local application data

Fiction Reader has no developer-operated account to close. Local data is controlled by the operator. Remove stories, imported books, profiles or credentials through the application where possible; then remove the installation's database, content directories, app-private data and backups if the entire local library is to be destroyed.

Desktop, server and Android storage locations differ. Keep an export or backup first if the action may need to be reversed. Deleting the application or a device copy does not automatically delete separate backups or Google Drive hidden data.

5. Security and sensitive reports

Do not publish an exploitable vulnerability or secret in a public issue. Use a private security-reporting channel on the repository if one is offered; otherwise open a minimal issue asking for a private contact route without revealing the vulnerability. Immediately revoke any exposed Google connection, source session or token and rotate affected secrets.