![]() If you don’t want to share personal data with an app store operator: download the Freda installer from Turnipsoft’s website.If you’re OK to share your personal details with an app store operator (Microsoft/Google/Apple): download Freda from the app store, and buy the 'premium features' add on if you wish.One payment (whether on an app store, or via PayPal) will allow you to use Freda on multiple devices (the limit will be about ten devices).įrom a privacy perspective, your options will be: The OneDrive sign-in is needed to give me a verified email address for the person who bought the licence and – if you should lose or re-install Freda – we can grant you the licence again without you having to pay for it. To buy the ‘premium features’ licence for this kind of installation, you’ll need to sign in to OneDrive using Freda, and make a PayPal payment to Turnipsoft. Licencing for such a Freda setup will be managed via a licence server running on the Azure cloud. Within the next few months, I will release a version of the app that’s designed for side-loading – so you can just download an installation file (APK, MSIX or whatever) from Turnipsoft’s website and install it yourself, without using an app store at all. The ‘premium features’ package will be available as an in-app purchase item in these stores. At present, Freda is available only from the app stores (Microsoft Store and Google Play, with Apple App Store coming soon). To remove these restrictions, you can buy the ‘premium features’ package. Automatic sync of book position and other details from one device to another will not be available.The read-aloud function will stop at the end of each chapter.You can’t create more than ten bookmarks or highlights in one day.In the current release, the restrictions are: Instead, Freda is now freemium/nagware: you can use Freda free of charge for as long as you like, and all that will happen is that you see occasional nagging messages, and certain features are restricted. The app won’t participate in the harvesting and selling of your personal data to anyone. Freda is no longer advertising supported. Assorted initiatives (GDPR for instance) have tried to restrict this data harvesting (or at least make sure it happens only with the subject’s consent) but mainly what they’ve achieved is to make the process more cumbersome, without really making it any less insidious.But that has morphed, over the years, into something much more objectionable – these days it isn’t really ‘advertising’ at all, as I used to understand the word rather, the app is becoming a conduit for the harvesting and correlating of personal data, for purposes that we mere netizens cannot understand but would probably disapprove of if we did understand them.Back in the day, on-line advertising worked like TV and billboard advertising, the business model being ‘I rent out some display space, and in that space the advertiser shows an appealing product description, which may induce the viewer to buy their product’.For me, as the app’s author this has become increasingly troublesome: Note: Core book-reader capabilities are available free of charge, but certain features of Freda are 'premium features' and an in-app purchase is required before you can use them.Up until now (August 2023) Freda has been advertising supported. + Creating more than ten highlights or bookmarks in one day + Text-to-speech reading continuously (until you've acquired the premium package, reading will stop at the end of each chapter) Note: Core book-reader capabilities are available free of charge, but certain features of Freda are 'premium features' and an in-app purchase is required before you can use them. You can download books and keep them on your PC, so you can carry on reading when you don't have network connectivity. Freda can also download books from any website and from email attachments. Or if you have an existing book collection, you can use OneDrive, Google Drive, DropBox or Calibre to share it with your PC. Freda understands EPUB formatting information and can display images and diagrams in books.įreda can get books from on-line catalogs like Feedbooks, Smashwords and the Gutenberg Project. The program offers customisable controls, fonts and colours, plus annotations and bookmarks, and the ability to look up dictionary definitions and translations, and text-to-speech reading. Or read your own (DRM-free) books in the supported formats: EPUB, MOBI, FB2, HTML and TXT. You can read over 50,000 public domain classic books, from Feedbooks, Gutenberg and other on-line catalogs. The basic functionality is free, with a package of extra features available as an in-app purchase. Freda is a program for reading electronic books (ebooks) on Windows.
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