1000 Books Before Kindergarten User Reviews

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App doesn’t work

It doesn’t add books when I add them, it also won’t delete duplicates, it often tries to scan pride and prejudice for almost every isbn I order. I basically can’t wait for my last kid to read the rest of his books so I can be done with the app and delete it.

Just use GoodReads

There are way too many glitches with this app. It doesn’t accurately keep track of books I’ve marked read. Many books are missing, hard to find, or mislabeled. The scan feature should be nice if it didn’t crash the app every time I tried to use it.

Really disappointing

Was looking forward to using this app with my toddler and it just doesn’t work. There is not an easy workflow to add a new book you just read to your list. And even when you do, it doesn’t always update the number of books you’ve read on your way to 1000 (and there doesn’t seem to be an easy way to refresh). Also, this app is incredibly slow.
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To many faults

There seems to be a lot of faults with this app. I can only ever get 1 book to be added to the readers list. They go into the library ok but not on to the readers list.

Where is scan option?

Downloaded app doesn’t have option to scan an isbn and looks different from the instruction illustrations on the website

Annoyed that so many books don’t scan

I find a lot of books we read do not scan into the system and I have to add manually. This is annoying and takes extra time away from actually reading. Never any updates to this app.

Love the Idea but the app is not user friendly

I’ve had to manually add most of the books and by the time it takes to do so, I could have read another book to my kids. With 3 little ones it would be nice to just tap a couple of buttons or so to log a book. Because of the time factor, I just don’t keep track.

Where are the books?

I got excited about this concept. My daughter and I easily read 5 or more books a day. Tracking I was hoping would be easy when I saw there is an app. I downloaded to find like 30 books? And cannot figure out how to add my own. Where are the books? I see some people saying they added manually or they scanned them but I don’t see those options. If there was a way to get help I’d appreciate that. Otherwise I guess that was that. 🙄
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Unreliable

Had to manually add almost all our books as the library seems limited. Then it would take 3-4 times to get the manually added book onto the reader’s list. Great idea, but needs tweaked. I ended up uninstalling and just using Goodreads.

Books not listed

The books we checked out from the library aren’t on the list and there’s no way to add them.

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