4.1.5
2015-12-11
Bug fixes and stability improvements
4.1.4
2015-09-26
Stability and preformance improvements
4.0.8
2014-12-06
- bug fixes and stability improvements
4.0.4
2014-06-13
- minor bug fixes and stability improvements
4.0.2
2014-03-27
* bug fixes and stability improvements
4.0.1
2014-02-02
- code enhancements
4.0.0
2014-01-27
- iOS7 update
- stability improvements
- minor bug fixes
2.5.2
2013-06-11
- stability improvements
2.5
2012-11-22
- iPhone 5 support
- stability improvements
2.4
2012-03-15
Notes, bookmarks, dictionary support, ePUB reading, and Dropbox integration!
The play by play:
- Long hold any word in the reader, our beautiful, custom made options come up. Highlight and take a note, tweet the text, copy it, or pull up a dictionary definition.
- By popular request, we've build an ePUB reader to make it incredibly easy to read your own personal ebooks. Just connect with Dropbox and import within mere seconds.
- Tweaks, bug fixes, and some big performance improvements.
2.3.3
2011-12-02
Bookmarks and Table of Contents, at long last! When you have a book open, just tap the bookmark icon in the top right hand corner- it'll slide right in. View your bookmarks from the Chapters button in the reader and re-read your favorite part of the book, any time.
We've also added full-screen covers on the first page of every book. Especially on a Retina Display ;)
Our Table of Contents are put together by hand- right now we have many of our most popular titles fully supported. In the coming months, we'll add even more!
Play by play-
- Bookmarks!
- Table of Contents for some of our most popular books. We're always adding more.
- Full-screen covers.
- Various tweaks and fixes.
- Fixed the iPad rendering problem.
- Reduced file-size to allow for wifi downloading of the app.
- Added a Uservoice Idea Forum to replace the awful old support system.
2.3
2011-09-09
Bookmarks and Table of Contents, at long last! When you have a book open, just tap the bookmark icon in the top right hand corner- it'll slide right in. View your bookmarks from the Chapters button in the reader and re-read your favorite part of the book, any time.
We've also added full-screen covers on the first page of every book. Especially on a Retina Display ;)
Our Table of Contents are put together by hand- right now we have many of our most popular titles fully supported. In the coming months, we'll add even more!
Play by play-
- Bookmarks!
- Table of Contents for some of our most popular books. We're always adding more.
- Full-screen covers
- Various tweaks and fixes.
2.2.1
2011-07-02
Reviews! Also, a completely revamped reader, registration, an across the board interface freshening up, and bug fixes. This update lays the foundation for our huge 3.0 update, where we'll get in library sync, highlights, bookmarks, and note-taking. Almost there :)
Play by play:
- User reviews, and ratings! To leave a rating takes less than a second- tap the star rating, you're done. Once we have enough ratings and reviews we'll let people sort by books by highest rated.
- Registration bug fixes, faster loading.
- Revamped reader. The reader now fits in much better with the rest of the app. You can also now rate books while reading, and view other reviews.
- Interface freshening. Lots of little annoyances are fixed- the top buttons are MUCH easier to tap, everything looks nicer, everything is snappier, and the whole app just 'feels' massively better.
- Registration. Right now it's just for written reviews, but soon it will be used for sync, library backups, and uploading your own books from the web.
- Bug fixes and performance improvements.
2.2
2011-06-21
Reviews! Also, a completely revamped reader, registration, an across the board interface freshening up, and bug fixes. This update lays the foundation for our huge 3.0 update, where we'll get in library sync, highlights, bookmarks, and note-taking. Almost there :)
Play by play:
- User reviews, and ratings! To leave a rating takes less than a second- tap the star rating, you're done. Once we have enough ratings and reviews we'll let people sort by books by highest rated.
- Revamped reader. The reader now fits in much better with the rest of the app. You can also now rate books while reading, and view other reviews.
- Interface freshening. Lots of little annoyances are fixed- the top buttons are MUCH easier to tap, everything looks nicer, everything is snappier, and the whole app just 'feels' massively better.
- Registration. Right now it's just for written reviews, but soon it will be used for sync, library backups, and uploading your own books from the web.
- Bug fixes and performance improvements.
2.1.1
2011-04-06
Updated for 4.3, and 300 new book descriptions! Some users were seeing lines clipped due to changes in the new version of iOS, that's now fixed. We've also added a new, faster, support system.
Coming soon- reviews, collection and author pages, book sharing to send your friends free copies of books, and syncing with Free Books for iPad.
2.1
2010-11-02
Gorgeous cover browsing, horizontal reading, related books while browsing, super high resolution Retina Display graphics, a brand new reader, and more! This is by far our biggest update yet.
- Cover browsing, where you can scroll through a beautiful bookshelf of some of our most popular titles.
- New reader, with justified text, a much nicer sepia background, horizontal reading, and an orientation lock. Swiping now works for turning the page, also.
- Related books! When you're looking at the description page for a book you'll also see some related titles at the top of the screen.
- A wonderfully revamped design- same layout as before, just redone done to take full advantage of Retina Display graphics. - Author/Title sorting in all lists
- On the fly collection updating, so we can give everyone lots of new collections inbetween updates.
- A new support system, with FAQs and a tutorial video.
- Bug fixes for the reader randomly returning to the Featured screen, layout issues, crashes, and some other odds and ends.
2.0
2010-10-06
Gorgeous cover browsing, horizontal reading, related books while browsing, super high resolution Retina Display graphics, a brand new reader, and more! This is by far our biggest update yet.
- Cover browsing, where you can scroll through a beautiful bookshelf of some of our most popular titles.
- New reader, with justified text, a much nicer sepia background, horizontal reading, and an orientation lock. Swiping now works for turning the page, also.
- Related books! When you're looking at the description page for a book you'll also see some related titles at the top of the screen.
- A wonderfully revamped design- same layout as before, just redone done to take full advantage of Retina Display graphics.
- Author/Title sorting in all lists
- On the fly collection updating, so we can give everyone lots of new collections inbetween updates.
- A new support system, with FAQs and a tutorial video.
- Performance improvements, bug fixes, and a general tightening up of the entire app.
Enjoy!
1.3.1
2010-06-30
iOS 4 compatibility, a new design, descriptions, collections to make browsing a snap, a much classier icon, bug fixes, instant switching between genres, and an easier to use book view.
So, uh, kind of a big update. Here's the play by play:
- A brand new browsing experience, with dozens of collections, featured authors, and genres drawn out of the larger collection- just flick along the Browse Bar to explore!
- Collections. Before, there were just generic genres and some featured books. Now we have everything from The Writings of Abraham Lincoln to English 101 to Philosophy Classics.
-Descriptions! Much requested, we have 'em- they're only in 50 or so books right now, but this will be expanded very rapidly moving forward.
- 100% less communisty icon.
- Made search more flexible, so a search for 'The Age of Reason' will bring up 'Age of Reason, The'.
- And, naturally, some other odds, ends, tweaks, and bug fixes.
1.3
2010-04-29
New design, descriptions, collections to make browsing a snap, a much classier icon, bug fixes, instant switching between genres, and an easier to use book view.
So, uh, kind of a big update. Here's the play by play:
- A brand new browsing experience, with dozens of collections, featured authors, and genres drawn out of the larger collection- just flick along the Browse Bar to explore!
- Collections. Before, there were just generic genres and some featured books. Now we have everything from The Writings of Abraham Lincoln to English 101 to Philosophy Classics.
-Descriptions! Much requested, we have 'em- they're only in 50 or so books right now, but this will be expanded very rapidly moving forward.
- 100% less communisty icon.
- Made search more flexible, so a search for 'The Age of Reason' will bring up 'Age of Reason, The'.
- And, naturally, some other odds, ends, tweaks, and bug fixes.
1.2.1
2009-11-11
Enormous across the board update! We did a huge rewrite of browsing and reading for stability and speed. If you got the app and crashed, that's totally fixed now. Plus, we added lots of other goodies to make the app much more enjoyable to read on.
* Fixed issue with repeating lines.
* Rewrite for stability- if you were crashing, install this update! Those issues are completely resolved.
* Crashes - gone, kaput, bada bing bada boom.
* Offline reading - no more annoying 'no internet connection' error. We save Top 25 and Featured locally and update in the background so you can browse anytime, online or offline.
* Return to book - if you exit from a book you'll return directly to that book.
* Revamped book management- - designed for managing large collections with sorting and easy deletion of books.
* Genres browsing - silky smooth instead of laggy and annoying. Much easier to browse those Pirate Tales, Banned Books, and Harvard Classics.
* Search - more clear, more obvious. Searches both titles and authors.
1.2
2009-10-28
Enormous across the board update! We did a huge rewrite of browsing and reading for stability and speed. If you got the app and crashed, that's totally fixed now. Plus, we added lots of other goodies to make the app much more enjoyable to read on.
* Rewrite for stability- if you were crashing, install this update! Those issues are completely resolved.
* Crashes - gone, kaput, bada bing bada boom.
* Offline reading - no more annoying 'no internet connection' error. We save Top 25 and Featured locally and update in the background so you can browse anytime, online or offline.
* Return to book - if you exit from a book you'll return directly to that book.
* Revamped book management- - designed for managing large collections with sorting and easy deletion of books.
* Genres browsing - silky smooth instead of laggy and annoying. Much easier to browse those Pirate Tales, Banned Books, and Harvard Classics.
* Search - more clear, more obvious. Searches both titles and authors.
1.1
2009-07-28
* Resizable fonts
* New color schemes
* 10x faster book loading
* Contact us button
* Tons of small enhancements to make Free Books easier to use, and stability improvements.