Freda is a free program for reading electronic books (ebooks) on Windows. Read over 50,000 public domain classic books, free of charge, from Gutenberg and other on-line catalogs. Or read your own (DRM-free) books in the supported formats: EPUB, MOBI, FB2, HTML and TXT.
The program offers customisable controls, fonts and colours, plus annotations and bookmarks, and the ability to look up dictionary definitions and translations, and (new feature) text-to-speech reading. Freda understands EPUB formatting information (bold/italic text, margins and alignment) and can display images and diagrams in books.
Freda can get books from on-line catalogs like the Gutenberg Project. Or if you have an existing book collection, you can use OneDrive, DropBox or Calibre to share it with your phone. Freda can also download books from any website and from email attachments.
You can download books and keep them on your phone, so you can carry on reading when you don't have network connectivity.
Freda is a free, advertising-supported app, displaying advertising at the bottom of its main page. If you don't want to see advertising, there is an in-app purchase option to remove it.
The manual is at http://www.turnipsoft.co.uk/freda .
Bug fix for rendering of tables
Bug fix release
+ There is now the option to purchase a premium features licence for a sideloaded installation
+ Google Drive browsing is no longer supported, because Google's access policies have changed
+ Improved licence management features
+ Bug fixes
Fix for app resuming (now returns to the book you had open)
Fix for duplicate books being created, when opening from external file/web browser
Bug fixes for parsing MathML equations
Fix for OneDrive sign-in issue
Bug fixes
Preparation for migration to version 5.0
Fix for localisation issue
Fix issues with edit, logon and delete buttons for book sources
Bug fixes
Fix for displaying the advertising consent popup.
DropBox connector has been updated, to cope with API changes that will come in 2021
CSS @import directives are now handled properly
MathML equations are now rendered
Bug fixes to text-to-speech
Bug fixes to layout of tables and floating elements
Text-to-speech can optionally apply emphasis
Text-to-speech can optionally skip certain content
A preset can be created 'for this book only'
CSS absolute and relative postioning are supported
CSS background images are displayed
PDF files are rendered (as simple images, one per page).
Block elements inside inlines are handled better.
Start-of-paragraph in justified text is laid out correctly.
Float/clear attributes are handled better.
Bug fix: MOBI files, and other books containing spurious width attributes, are correctly rendered.
Bug fix: Paragraph-selection behaviour is improved.
Bug fix: Storage permission is requested, if necessary.
Improved handling of long CSS selectors
Copy-to-clipboard now copies new-lines
Bug fix: distorted SVG images
Fix for issue with Gutenberg's HTTPS certificate
Fix for issue with Dropbox login
Fix for issue with cached book data from previous app version.
