[tomsem]

Thanks, Jim! I just bought an unlocked Windows Phone for $30 and have been looking for reading apps to play with. I got the paid version of Freda, have set up Dropbox and OneDrive and am exploring reading options. Looks good!

I'll also be installing it on my Windows laptop and a Kangaroo PC that I just bought.

This is my first experience with Windows mobile, and I like it. I'm looking forward to the v10 update. I hope Microsoft enjoys enough success to continue with the platform.

I find I need to fiddle with the system button tray (or whatever it is called) more than perhaps necessary. For example, if it is displaying, and I bring up 'quick settings' (or whatever it is called), the buttons shown at the bottom are partially obscured, and I have to hide it to see everything (I get that reading mode assumes it has full screen and users should be motivated to hide the tray). However if I go to 'advanced settings' from 'quick settings' with system tray hidden, there is no way to navigate back to reading mode without revealing the system tray so that I can tap the Back button on there, and then I need to swipe again to hide the tray again so it isn't on top of things. I would suggest adding another 'action button' next to 'undo' to close that advanced settings UI and go directly back to reading mode. This is on Windows Phone 8.1 Update 2.

It could be argued that reading mode should be responsive to whether the tray is hidden or not and redraw in response in the available viewport, so people would not have to hide it to see reading progress or whatever, but that's probably 'expensive' as it requires reflowing everything. I'm not sure I'd vote for that. I don't know if Windows Phone 8.1 lets apps auto-hide the button tray as on Android. That would be better, I think.