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Freda certainly is designed to work with Windows 10 Mobile (indeed, I use the app on my WM10 phone). There are various things that could prevent it launching, particularly preventing it launching the first time. These include: phone memory being full, too many other apps running, failure to...

You could try Freda - that is functionally pretty similar to Bookviser, except that it doesn't rely on a 'private cloud' to store your books (it just uses OneDrive for any information that you want to synchronise between devices). It's a UWP app and it's getting reasonably frequent updates at...

The OP mentioned Freda - I can confirm that Freda does not register any background tasks, and does not run in the background. If you're seeing signs of Freda draining the battery when not running as a foreground task, it must be an OS bug. I wish I could say that was unlikely :-( Freda is...

Well, for PDFs, Freda cannot help you at the moment (unless you want to convert your PDF to EPUB using Calibre - which is actually quite a good solution). I will be implementing PDF format in Freda in the coming months, but not in the immediate future. As for differentiating features, you have...

Freda does offer sync across devices, highlighting, bookmarks/annotations (which are saved, and can be exported to file), and hyperlinks (which work for footnotes, cross-references, and links to external documents). All these features are available in the free, advertising-supported program...

That's a good thought. Freda allows you to specify the URI that it will use for dictionary lookup (by specifying a template URI string in which it replaces {0} with the text you are looking for). I've reached out to the developer of Perfect Dictionary to get details of the URI scheme used for...

Freda is a Universal App, and does run on Windows 10, and on Windows 10 Mobile. I'm actively working on the appearance of the app on Windows 10 Mobile (it's not simple, as each new pre-release version of the W10M operating system brings new suprises for us poor developers!). But it does work...

Freda can read EPUB, FB2 and TXT format ebooks (but it does not do MOBI/AZW, PDF, DOC, RTF or CHM). It does support text-to-speech, and after the latest update it can continue reading aloud even when the screen is locked.

Freda & Freda+ v3.7 Adding: Read aloud Additional UI gestures Option to skip the 'book info' page when opening a book (paid for version only) Customisation of book cover images

The way I see it, a flourishing WP8/W8 app ecosystem is a good thing for all of us. So I'll always be ready to help out - especially when it's a good-looking app like this one.

The advice that we developers are getting from Microsoft is very much that it will make sense to develop common projects for WP8.1 and W8.1 - i.e. one common code base with two separate UIs. Indeed that's already possible, if you're following an MVVM design pattern. What changes with WP8.1 is...

And so will Freda

Actually, Freda does it too. But (as noted above) the big limitation is that it only works with removable storage cards. I'm really not sure why Microsoft think that is a sensible limitation to impose.

Hi - and nice job! The HTML5 rendering is outstanding - better than any other ereader I've seen on Windows Phone. As author of one such reader (Freda) I am most impressed. I did try it out on a few of my sample of 'awkward test EPUB files' and got some 'invalid cross-thread access' errors...

With the latest version, it's not so many UI actions - drag to select the word; a menu will pop up; pick 'look up' and then tap the 'search' button. Not sure I can reasonably make it use fewer UI actions :-) But I agree it's a pity that it only works with network connectivity. If anyone can...

Thu 5am: ordered on MS website Thu 9am: order appeared on the 'order history' page of the MS site, and I got order acknowledgement email. Fri 5pm: order status changed from 'in process' to 'complete' with a UPS tracking link. UPS tracking site shows that they're expecting to deliver some time...

Ordered on the website at 5am this morning, and managed to enter credit card details OK - but the order did not immediately appear on the 'order history' page on the website. Got a confirmation email at 9am, at which time the order did then show up on the 'order history' page. Status on the...

I think I'd better offer an update on the development roadmap for the next few months, as it has changed somewhat - firstly because my day job (telling an investment bank what technology to spend its money on) has been busy these last few weeks, and secondly because I had a lot of users asking...

Indeed - I spotted this issue a few days back; the handling of CODE and PRE tags got messed up when I ported the code across from Windows Phone 7. I have a fix ready to release (but it won't be released for about two weeks, because I need to avoid disruptions during a 'promotion' of the app by...

The root cause is, I suspect, that Freda is using a Direct2D SurfaceImageSource for rendering text; I did that, in the hope of being able to do more high-performance visual effects in due course. The various 'smoothness levels' that are now available in 'settings' correspond to the range of...