Fiction Book Reader for Windows Phone 8

In everyday life I often use my phone to read books, and its screen resolution (800x480) should make that fairly comfortable. However, I very quickly discovered that there wasn't a single decent fb2 "reader" for WP7.

And since I'm a .NET developer myself, I decided to try my hand at WP7 development and fix this annoying lack of a "reader".

The app costs $0.99. A trial version is available.

5.0

• Added synchronization between the readers on Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.
• Moved to an SQLite database
• Moved to a shared book parser for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.
• The Windows Phone 7 version is no longer updated.

4.0

• Added Windows Phone 8 support.
• Added loading books from an SD card.
• Added support for mobi books.
• Added loading books via file associations.
• Added the ability to create categories.

3.0

• Added search.
• Added the ability to view images enlarged (only for images that don't fit on the screen).
• Added the ability to open a book for reading without going through the book details page.
• Font size can now be set from 20pt to 40pt.
• Reworked the text translation page. Choosing the translation languages has moved to a separate page.
• The hardware "Back" button returns you to the previous reading position (after following a link).

2.0

• a local library: shows lists of authors and genres, plus search within the library.
• support for various fonts (14 of them).
• basic CSS support (allows paragraph indents and other embellishments at the book author's discretion).
• hyphenation can be turned on and off.
• 5 brightness levels (20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, 100%) instead of the 3 (50%, 75%, 100%) in the previous version.
• 2 more templates for showing books in lists: cover, and cover with description.
• jumping to a given percentage of the book, accurate to a hundredth of a percent.
• pages are gone. Fb2 reader no longer splits a book into pages, so it doesn't know how many pages a book has.
• lower memory requirements. Together with the previous item, this should help the battery last longer.
• rotating the phone loads a page that starts with the same word as in the previous orientation.
• changing the font size or the font itself no longer requires any reprocessing of the book. Changes apply immediately.
• search within OPDS catalogs.
• "pages" are gone when browsing OPDS catalogs. Data is loaded in the background into the same list.
• changed navigation through book download sources. Each new folder now opens on a new page. The back button goes up one level. To leave all folders at once, there's an "exit" button in the menu.
• added a page for viewing a book's annotation and managing the book. There's no longer a context menu for each book.
• you can now not only pin a book to the start screen but also unpin it.
• the trial version can't download more than 3 books, even if you delete them from local storage.
• automatic page turning on a timer. 

1.8

• Added support for books in epub and txt formats;
• Added text selection;
• Sharing selected text on social networks;
• Translating selected text into another language;
• Creating a note from selected text;
• Fixed loading files from SkyDrive;
• The SkyDrive session is now kept, so you no longer have to enter your password every time;
• Added lots of options;
• Added help.

1.7

• Following links (footnotes) within a book;
• Navigating via the table of contents;
• Bookmarks within a book;
• SkyDrive storage support.

1.6

• Implemented hyphenation for Russian text;
• Fixed some errors in Russian texts;
• Added the ability to pin books to the start screen;
• OPDS catalog support.

1.5

• fixed a problem with resuming indexing;
• fixed a problem with resuming book downloads;
• added full support for the windows-1251 encoding;
• added Russian localization;
• added the ability to turn off animations;
• added an option to justify text (** off by default*);
• added themes: dark, light, sepia;
• added brightness control;
• added a confirmation dialog for deleting a book;
• changed the app icons to ones that better fit the Metro style;
• changed how books are stored on the phone. Books already on the phone need to be re-indexed.

1.4

• Added a list of downloads;
• The original book is saved in the phone's memory;
• Book indexing runs in the background and only on demand;
• Opening a book is much faster;
• Slightly reworked the UI to make it more convenient;
• Added a choice of font size: Small, Normall, Large;
• Added support for zipped books;
• Regular and archived books now have different icons;
• Reworked gesture handling. Fixed bugs with false triggering in some rare cases;
• Added support for citations (cite) and subtitles (subtitle);
• Fixed a problem with links to nonexistent images;
• Fixed a problem with splitting a page into lines.

1.2

• Downloading and processing a book for storage on the phone is much better optimized;
• Books open quite quickly;
• Page turning is almost instant;
• Added a page-turning animation.

1.1

• Faster page turning.

1.0

• First public build;
• Can download files from dropbox.