E-books that you add yourself show up in the same area, with metadata displayed to the right. Freda comes with several classic public-domain titles pinned to the homescreen, which can be downloaded and opened by clicking on them or deleted from the screen with a right-click option. You can remove it with a $1.99 in-app purchase, which wouldn’t be a bad fee to pay for the app just as it is. It is free but ad-supported, in the form of a single banner ad from the app’s home screen-nothing that shows up while you’re actually reading things. And it’s getting better day by day as developer Jim Chapman is open to suggestions for new features.įreda will open DRM-free EPUB, FB2, TXT, and HTML documents.

Freda is simply one of the best e-reading apps I’ve ever seen for any platform. While I’ll definitely keep ADE around for downloading e-books, I’m thinking of switching to something else for reading the DRM-free ones. But in recent weeks I’ve found another Windows 10 e-reading application that is remarkably good.

It downloads books via ACSM files from the public library for me, after all.

For reading e-books on my Windows desktop, for the longest time I’ve used Adobe Digital Editions.

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