Of course, you can also navigate though the book using any of: cross-reference links, bookmarks, table of contents, and a simple ‘go to page’ feature. The updated app takes full advantage of Direct2D graphics, allowing book pages to be rendered extremely rapidly (hold down the ‘down-arrow’ key on your PC, and you will see more than twenty pages flickering past each second, as Freda progresses through the book). The OpenDyslexic font and a range of dyslexic-friendly settings, for use by readers who are affected by dyslexia.Synchronisation of your reading position across all the devices you are using.Opening books from websites and email attachments, and from files anywhere on your device.Connection to your Microsoft OneDrive and DropBox accounts for downloading book files.Integration with on-line catalogs – Feedbooks, Smashwords, Gutenberg ….Highlighting, bookmarks and annotations.Customisable controls, fonts and colours.What’s more, the text to speech on the Asus was outstanding (although I would have liked to have a speed control handy).įreda has been available since 2009 when it was launched on Windows Mobile, and has provided an efficient and customisable system for reading ebooks in ePub, FB2 and TXT format on Windows Phone 7, 7.5, 8 and 8.1, and on Windows 8 and 8.1. At least the version I downloaded was not giving me the choice of all-text bold (Amazon, do you really think you’re the only one I’m picking on in this regard?). On the whole, Freda was a pleasure to use. I tried Freda on an Asus TP200S convertible laptop-tablet, which I snapped up for $200 over the Black Friday weekend from the Microsoft Store. But it isn’t as if Windows, in one form or another, is just going to vanish. The Windows Phone platform may or may not take off-so far the pessimists are prevailing. It even integrates with the Calibre e-book management program.
The Freda Ebook Reader, one of my favorite Windows 10 e-reading apps, is now out in a Windows Universal version for desktop, mobile and tablet, according to Turnipsoft developer Jim Chapman.įreda continues to intrigue me because of the ease of downloading goodies from such places as Project Gutenberg-just look at the enticing screen shot.
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