I am doing work on the UX at the moment, but the main challenge is that - Freda being a Universal app - it's tough to come up with designs that work acceptably on all platforms (mobile, tablet, desktop. So as the dev, I am not sure what more you need me to do (I could change the default appearance, but some people like it, and now they would be unhappy - better, I think, to make it customisable, which is what I have done).īut maybe you're more concerned about the UX than the UI? Perhaps some interactions are more cumbersome or confusing than you would like? (downloading a bunch of books, viewing and editing book metadata, changing program settings, opening and using the book-navigation controls.

And if you don't like the size of images or text, you can change them by changing the system text-size setting. The UI is customisable, to the extent that you can replace the background image with another image (or no image), and you can change the colour scheme to suit your personal preferences.

Honestly, I am not sure what you mean by 'awful mess'. I don't know that their server was doing anything illegal, and it probably wasn't, but it was also a little suspect that they wanted you to send all of your DRM-free books through their central server (so they could harvest them and then distribute or even sell them elsewhere).įreda from day one has supported OPDS functionality, and has never required you to create a Freda account or upload to a Freda server (in fact, there is no such thing as either of those). There was no Onedrive or Dropbox integration, no OPDS or direct HTTP download, no file extension registration (I won't hold this one against them, because I can't remember if they launched on WP7 where there were no file extension hooks, or WP8 where there was). That was some random, unknown service sitting in Russia, not exactly something that inspires confidence. When BookViser first launched they had exactly one way of getting books into the app, which was to upload them through the 'BookViser Server'.

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