You will see a page number indicator, '-/-' at the bottom of the page (the -/- symbols mean that Freda has not finished scanning through the book, and so it doesn't yet know how many pages there are). Normally, this will be a 'title page', containing the book title and/or the picture from the cover. When the book is downloaded and ready for you to start reading, the 'loading' message will disappear, and you will see the first page of the book. You will see a screen with a '.loading.' message, and moving coloured dots at the bottom of the screen. To open one of them, touch the book title.

When you first start Freda, you will see a list of classic books.

Up to twenty books can be downloaded and kept locally on your phone, so you can carry on reading when you don't have network connectivity. Freda can also download books from any website, using an in-application web-browser. Or if you have an existing book collection, you can use DropBox or Calibre to share it with your phone. The program offers customisable controls, fonts and colours, plus annotations and bookmarks.įreda can download books from on-line catalogs like Feedbooks, Smashwords and the Gutenberg Project. It reads EPUB (DRM-free), HTML and TXT format books. That might be sufficient for most users I'm waiting to see how many people find they actually need to keep their whole library on the phone.Freda-chinese - Freda is a free program for reading electronic books (ebooks) on Windows Phone. The Windows Phone 7 design philosophy says that you 'ought to' keep your content on the cloud, not locally, and Freda supports that by integrating with DropBox, OPDS catalogs (including Calibre) and a website-interface. But I'm not sure how much demand there really is for this. In principle I could add 'library management' functions (similar to what the WinMo 6 version of Freda has), and a 'book import/synch' process to let people load hundreds/thousands of books onto the phone. The 20 limit is because the 'bookshelf' display on the program will start to perform badly if you put much more than 20 items in it. Unless your phone is very full, it probably has room for thousands of books (book files are only 1MB or so). My HD7 has enough space for dozens if not hundreds of books 20 seems like an oddly low limit.

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