Wonderful!
The app is wonderful. Now I can read tons of magazines at home.
One suggestion: the text size is way too small for me and it seems there’s no way to change text size in “Text view”.
One suggestion: the text size is way too small for me and it seems there’s no way to change text size in “Text view”.
Horrible download & time limit
My library recently switched over to this magazine service from our previous one. The selection is now much more limited but I know thats not the apps fault.
What is the apps fault is the horrible download speed & enforced checkout time limit. I’ve had 6 magazine issues attempting to download for 3 days now with no progress. They all just say “waiting”. I cancelled & tried again but am back at the same frustrating spot as before.
IF you’re able to get them downloaded be prepared for a 1 week checkout period before they’re marked as “expired” forcing you to delete. If you still want to read it you have to start the infuriating download attempt all over.
What is the apps fault is the horrible download speed & enforced checkout time limit. I’ve had 6 magazine issues attempting to download for 3 days now with no progress. They all just say “waiting”. I cancelled & tried again but am back at the same frustrating spot as before.
IF you’re able to get them downloaded be prepared for a 1 week checkout period before they’re marked as “expired” forcing you to delete. If you still want to read it you have to start the infuriating download attempt all over.
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Won’t let me sign in.
Will not let me sign in. Please fix. Also won’t download. Keeps saying not available
Need more magazine varieties
I just downloaded this app specifically to access National Geographic magazine and it is not available. I would like National Geographic and Consumer Reports to be available on Flipster please. Need much more variety added to the app.
Slow Downloads
The magazines are incredibly slow to download. I’ve been stuck at 0% downloaded for the last 15 minutes. Please fix this bug. Thank you!
Confusing
My girlfriend and I both use this app through the same library and she has a much larger assortment of magazines, specifically the ones I downloaded the app to read.
Great for reading magazines - needs text mode improvements
I’m able to add my library account, conveniently browse and download available issues, read them using the graphical layout or the text-based reader mode. For that functionality alone, this is one of my favorite apps on my phone - this is how reading is supposed to be - immersive, with purpose and thought, and in depth rather than skimming headlines. That’s what I’m able to do effortlessly, because this app enables me to read articles from The Atlantic, or the New Yorker, or whatever magazine I’ve downloaded - and it presents the content beautifully just as the magazine laid it out and there are no flashing ads vying for my attention. Thank you for a wonderful app!
What’s needs improvement:
1. The text-based reader mode: currently it only shows text in Arial (or something similar) - font size, font family, background, brightness - none of this can be customized. It’s really critical to improve this. When reading full articles, font readability matters a lot! Fonts with a serif are so much more readable at small screen sizes (or if people feel differently, let them choose their font). Background and brightness can make such a big difference when it comes to eye strain. Adding some configurable options here will turn a good app into a great one!
2. Font scaling and image scaling in graphical view. When zooming in to some pages, the text and images can get blurry quite quickly. I have seen magazine reader apps that do a great job of zooming, and it would be great to get the same experience here. If you have to pick one thing to work on though, I suggest the text reader improvements are a much higher priority.
I do hope you’ll consider my feedback and I promise those 4-stars will turn into 5 as soon as we get some font configuration options. Thank you for a very nice app in the meantime.
What’s needs improvement:
1. The text-based reader mode: currently it only shows text in Arial (or something similar) - font size, font family, background, brightness - none of this can be customized. It’s really critical to improve this. When reading full articles, font readability matters a lot! Fonts with a serif are so much more readable at small screen sizes (or if people feel differently, let them choose their font). Background and brightness can make such a big difference when it comes to eye strain. Adding some configurable options here will turn a good app into a great one!
2. Font scaling and image scaling in graphical view. When zooming in to some pages, the text and images can get blurry quite quickly. I have seen magazine reader apps that do a great job of zooming, and it would be great to get the same experience here. If you have to pick one thing to work on though, I suggest the text reader improvements are a much higher priority.
I do hope you’ll consider my feedback and I promise those 4-stars will turn into 5 as soon as we get some font configuration options. Thank you for a very nice app in the meantime.
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Hi I can’t sign in
The log in page is landing on an error page. Not being able to sign in.
Does nothing
Went thru all the trouble to setup account and checkout a magazine and it’s just a blank screen. Wondering now if my info has been stolen
Limited in scope
Very disappointing. Not much in variety. I don’t know who is selecting the magazine but they need to widen their scope.
