i did genuinely love the app, theres so much to love about this app, and the interface is the most pleasing one ive found— it wouldve been the app for me if not for the fact that each book gets one entry total: a page with every single field you could fill out (rating, review, dates, shelf, tags, series, borrow & purchase fields, short & advanced note, quotes, previous read dates, etc) which pops up every time you tap the book.
the closest you can get to logging a reread is by manually moving the date values to the “previous read dates” field— no new review, rating, or borrow log— and resetting the page position slider (which can only be updated in the full editing page). the slider updates your feed when you start and finish a book (though it wont fill the start & end dates) but progress between start and finish isnt recorded anywhere.
if you want a status field, you have to make it with shelves and manually change it — but the “see in shelf” button only shows if a book is in your default shelf.
the only form of note taking is the single note per book, so theres no real way to track your thoughts throughout the book or update your friends. you could use the quotes field (a pro feature) but it wont show in your activity feed and you sacrifice having a quote-specific collection.
i do love the series field, though it would be more useful if it grouped books together in your library. i also like the purchase field, but id rather be able to mark a book as owned and the rest be optional.
all in all, i do genuinely think the app is very well developed and has a lot to offer, but these issues were dealbreakers for me personally.
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