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By happy chance, I have (in the last release) done some work on my data source - which used to be a binary file, and which is now a LINQ query. So it may work nicely; I will keep you posted.
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Freda crashes when downloading newspapers from Calibre
Hello everyone,
I'm new to Calibre and freda and hope that someone here can help me. I'm able to successfully see, download and read books from my Calibre library on my WP7.5 device (Nokia Lumia 800), but when I try to do the same with newspapers (e.g. The Economist, The Daily Mirror, Sydney Morning Herald) I can see the newspapers, but after selecting a newspaper freda always crashes when I press either the "Download" or "Open" button. Upon crashing I am dumped back to the WP Apps menu. I have no problem opening and reading the same newspaers using Calibre's built-in reader. I can also successfully see, download and read the same newspapers using ABookReader. Has anyone else come across this problem and is there a solution? (I'm running Calibre 0.8.40 on Windows 7 and freda 2.5 on my Nokia Lumia 800.) |
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Feature suggestion
Hello, I started using Freda since the last (2.5) update ind it is so far the best ebook reader out there. I love the Skydrive support added in the last version, but as I'm one of the people who like to carry the entire ebook collection in their device (mobile data connection is quite expensive and very limited (150MB FUP) here in the Czech Republic) and I miss the ability to download the entire Skydrive folder content (300+ ebooks) at one click - it is quite annoying to download all those ebooks one by one. It is just a suggestion, but it would be a great feature in the next version of Freda.
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1) Please find one of the newspaper epub files in your Calibre folder on your PC and email it to me, so I can do some testing 2) On the Calibre main library screen, please select one of the newspaper files, and look at its metadata [right-click, menu item 'edit metadata', sub-menu item 'edit metadata individually' ]. Take a look at the metadata text (probably in a 'comments' pane on the right hand side of the screen), and if it is very long, please delete it. The current Freda version has a bug that causes problems in the case of books with large amounts of metadata text. 3) After one of the failed downloads, please restart Freda then go to the 'support' page and tap the 'email for support' button. That will send me a log file that may help me investigate the issue. Thanks for your help, Jim (jim@turnipsoft.co.uk) |
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1) I've just emailed a copy of "The Economist" to you from my Calibre folder. 2) Yes the metadata for these news epubs is very long, and deleting it seems to fix the problem, although not immediately. After deleting the metadata I was immediately able to successfully download to my bookshelf in Freda, but when I selected it to read in the bookshelf it crashed again. However when I restarted Freda (it may have been the second or third time, I'm not sure) I successfully selected and opened to read. 3) I've also just emailed the logfile corresponding to "The Economist" file in 1 above via the "email for support" button. Many thanks for your responsiveness. With your 2nd suggestion I at least have a workaround I can use in the meantime. |
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Beta-testing Freda ebook reader (version 2.6)
I've got a new release (2.6) of Freda ready for beta-testing. I've just emailed my regular beta-testing team with a link - but if you're interested in testing the program (and you've not received an email from me in the last few minutes) please contact me and I will sign you up to the beta-testing group.
The new version includes assorted new features, such as:
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This is just for phone users, not PDA users, is that right, Jim?
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You can sign me up for your beta-testing group, if you want. There are some features in this beta that fix some major problems I have with Freda at the moment. There's a PM in your box with my info.
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That's good news, Jim. Thanks for this. Will this release offer copy-text? It isn't listed, but I can hope... The random advertisment will certainly be more effective (for the advertiser), but I'm hoping that there will also be a not-free-Freda that will be available.
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There will. I intend to call it 'Freda+'. |
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Freda v2.6 Update now published on Marketplace
Version 2.6 adds new features including:
For more details, head over to http://www.turnipsoft.co.uk/freda , and to download the app, find it on Marketplace at http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=c1e3...4-00237de2db9e . There is a video demo at http://youtu.be/tWFH8mkGZ3Y . Last edited by Jim Chapman; 07-14-2012 at 02:05 PM. |
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