# Axis 360 > Digital media library for borrowing ebooks and audiobooks from libraries. (iPhone/iPad app by BAKER n TAYLOR CORPORATION.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/axis-360/id903001147 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [BAKER n TAYLOR CORPORATION](https://appshunter.io/developer/634003725) - Category: Books, Education - Price: Free - Rating: 4.24/5 from 14,955 App Store ratings · 51 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 13.0 · 278 MB - Languages: English - Released: 2014-08-20 - Data updated: 2026-06-10 - Monetization: free - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/axis-360/id903001147/reviews.md ## What is Axis 360? Axis 360 gives library and school users the ability to search, browse and discover ebooks and/or digital audiobooks available for lending through their public library or school with ease. Designed to provide a mobile experience for users of the Axis 360 digital media library, the Axis 360 app lets you sync with your local library or school’s digital collection, allowing you to check out materials in a user interface optimized for your device. The free app allows you to browse, check out and read ebooks or listen to audiobooks in a single app. Axis 360 is a service from Baker & Taylor, the premier distributor of books and entertainment products. ## Key features - Search and browse digital collections - Borrow ebooks and audiobooks - Sync with local library/school - Optimized mobile interface - Read ebooks in-app - Listen to audiobooks in-app ## What do users think of Axis 360? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 📚 Great selection of books - 🔍 Convenient access to library content - 🎧 Reliable audiobook playback - 📖 Comfortable reading experience **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and glitches - 🔄 Inconsistent page/chapter navigation - 🕰️ Slow loading and syncing - 🤔 Confusing and unintuitive interface - 🔒 Authentication issues **Commonly reported bugs** - Books disappearing from user's account - Inability to renew checked-out items - Inconsistent behavior when switching between devices - Unreliable audio playback and chapter navigation **Most requested features** - Improved search and browsing functionality - Bookmarking and last-read position saving - Customizable font and display options - Offline reading and listening support - Integration with other reading apps and services ## Recent user reviews (10 of 51) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/axis-360/id903001147/reviews.md ### 1/5 — Beej *2023-02-28* Terrible app. There cannot be worse app for a library. Slow, lacking basic features like "sample", misleading " additions" that have been already offered. Got one star because I couldn't review with zero! More. It has gotten even worse! Slow and slower. Whoever chose to switch to this app should forced to use it. Unbelievably lousy! Going back to hard copy. Even more WORSE AND WORSE WITH UPDATES Who is buying this crap? More: No longer can increase font size Freezes every other chapter, every book Bookmark does not work Whoever is praising this app must work for the developer! more....Gets worse with any updates...... Go to,your library and tell them how bad this app is! Bring back OVERDRIVE More Reviews are a few years old and the app still is crap...they can’t fix it. Find one that works...cause it ain’t this one! Final update: After three years, I have seen zero improvements that stay in effect...it is still too glitchy If you are a library or can opt to another app... go to “ OVERDRIVE “ a great app that works. MORE I am still stuck with this terrible app since my library went CHEAP. Over a few years, nothing seems to be improved. Updates, what updates? Try to enlarge the print, huh? Glitchy all the time, try to Log on, watch the circle go round and round......and round. The yellow screen is one of my favs. ### 1/5 — Super frustrating *2022-12-20, version 9.1.5* Since I’m constantly being bugged to rate this app when I’m using it, despite having already left a review and also tapping NO on the “want to be reminded later to rate this?” button, here’s an update for you. This app is such a piece of crap. The only reason I give it 1 star is because it can - when it feels like it - give me the ability to read ebooks on the go. When it goes wrong and it seems to often, however, it goes *really* wrong. I feel like I’m going to light my hair on fire right now because I’m being told “I have no internet to check out and download the book” I have on hold — when I have full bars of 5G on my device or alternately my home wifi which is working for literally every device including the one I’m holding. (Yes, I have restarted the app and phone several times already to try to resolve.) Seriously, what gives with this app?? If issues could be fixed this would be a great and very useful thing. Very frustrating! ### 5/5 — My daily companion *2022-11-08, version 9.1.5* This service, through my wonderful local library, has brought me so much listening-reading pleasure. From a well paired audiobook on a road trip, the latest book club pick, or delving into something I’ve been wanting to learn more about, it is all possible. The ability to download to listen off line is my favorite feature. Bookmarking before I set the sleep timer so if I do fall asleep while listening I am close to where I drifted off, is my second favorite. It seems the catalog and availability just keep getting better and better too. There are some small issues with trying to fast forward but with patience there are work arounds. ### 5/5 — I love it when it works *2022-07-18, version 9.1.3* I listen to a lot of audiobooks and this app makes that possible. I definitely would not be able to afford to buy them all! However, at points in the 4 years that I have been using this app, it has been completely unusable. I assume it’s occasional bugs, but I have seen time where the books won’t load, they won’t show up in the “my stuff” area, or the download button immediately says “expired” even if I checked it out that same day. When these things happen you just have to wait for the app to be fixed. The main trick that I’ve learned with this app is: DO NOT let the screen sleep while something is downloading. Keep the screen awake even if the connection is terrible/the book is huge and it takes a long time. Also, use the bookmark feature if you end a reading session without an internet connection, otherwise there is a chance that it forgets where you left off and you won’t have the bookmark. In general, the app has gotten so much less glitchy over these 4 years! As long as my local library only supports audiobooks on this app, I will continue to use it! ### 2/5 — One of the worst apps I've used *2022-05-05, version 9.1.1* I use this app because it's the main way I can access ebooks and audiobooks from one of my local public library systems. THE POSITIVE: It has, more or less, let me access the library's collection. (Mostly.) THE NEGATIVE: Frequent crashes. Even more frequent error messages when I'm trying to open books. (Often saying my device has a poor connection, even when that's not true, and when that *shouldn't matter* because I've downloaded the book to my device.) Long waits to open books, which often end with the app crashing. One book I downloaded - which I was very excited to read - would *never* open; the app crashed or froze every time, so I couldn't even see one word. Sometimes the in-app controls show up when I touch the screen; sometimes they don't. Sometimes page numbers and locations show up; sometimes they don't. I could go on. All in all: it has enabled access to certain library materials, but actually using this app has been a terrible experience. ### 3/5 — Good but… *2022-03-02, version 9.0.2(1)* While I am grateful for this app and my ability to be able to read and access books I would probably have to purchase, it is so very frustrating and irritating that the app has so many downfalls! First of all, when I open the app, it takes forever to get to my last read page as I have to go they several clicks to get to the book. Once I get into the book, I’m at the mercy of the app getting to my last read page. Sometimes I get lucky and I’m at the last read page but most of the time I’m either w pages ahead or one to two pages behind and I have to regroup and see what’s what. Secondly, when I go to turn the page, it might go forward or it might just sit there and then I have to attempt to turn the page several times before it goes forward and then it might advance one page or several pages! Ugh! Lastly, if I decide to veer off the page I’m reading because I want to look at the table of contents and I click on something in there, I have found it almost impossible go be able to get back to the page I was originally on. I have learned to bookmark that page before veering off of my current page. I guess I’m used to my Kindle as I don’t have that issue when I’m reading on my kindle. There a few more issues I am experiencing but these are the most glaring for me. ### 4/5 — Very good - I have some suggestions for improving *2021-05-17, version 8.1.0* I truly love this app because I read a lot and it enables me to do so in all kinds of situations and have lots of books going at the same time. One big suggestion for improvement - I often read at night while holding a nursing baby and change the text to white and background to black - with phone brightness turned down this is a good way to read without distracting the baby or exposing my eyes to light. BUT - in the latest update to the app a white bar was added at the bottom of the page - it is distractingly bright and I end up trying to read while covering it with my fingers. Please change the black reading screen to all black. In addition, it would be great if there were both forward and back arrows on both sides of the screen so that I could forward the page more easily while holding the phone one handed. Forward on both sides at top, backward both sides at bottom, for example. ### 2/5 — Audio book functionality feels like a cosmic joke *2021-05-05, version 8.1.0* This app allows me to get a ton of different audiobooks from my library which is amazing but the playback “functionality” is so glitchy it feels like a cosmic joke. What 100s of other apps do without error this one constantly screws up. For months downloading didn’t work. That eventfully got fixed but then it would stop playback intermittently when you’d try to fast forward or change chapters until you closed the app. It also regularly loses your place. I bookmark regularly to counteract this. The latest is that the sleep timer doesn’t work anymore. When you put in your desired duration it stops playback - you can sometimes resume, sometimes not - but no timer appears and it does not turn itself off. This is all against a backdrop of lots of spinning and waiting... and crashing as you navigate through the interfaces to find books or to read the ones in your shelf. I can put up with and work around a lot but trying to get my parents and grandparents to use it? Ha! ### 1/5 — Disappointed *2021-03-22, version 8.0.3* Here’s an update. The latest update added text to speech. That’s great but it won’t turn the page! Seriously?!? And now the text doesn’t get as large as it used to. Meaning I have no chance to read it without my glasses. Cmon tram Axis360. Get it right! If I could give zero stars I would. Was a big fan of the Blio app. Books had text to speech capability on iOS. This meant I could listen to my book on a long drive and pick it up when I was done and just read it. New app has no such functionality. On top of that page turning in the app is extremely painful. Sometimes a page won’t turn. And the book just gets stuck. You actually have to move to the next chapter then go back and be prepared because when you get back to the glitchy page you’re stuck again. When you download an audiobook sometimes it starts back up in the wrong place. Sometimes it gets stuck and you have to hit the next chapter button never knowing if you missed something. Where’s the quality control? Who tested this app to make sure it worked before releasing it? Does anybody actually read these reviews and try to improve the product? I sincerely hope that the library system didn’t spend a fortune on this app because it still needs a ton of work. ### 1/5 — Beej *2021-03-14, version 8.0.3* Terrible app. There cannot be worse app for a library. Slow, lacking basic features like "sample", misleading " additions" that have been already offered. Got one star because I couldn't review with zero! More. It has gotten even worse! Slow and slower. Whoever chose to switch to this app should forced to use it. Unbelievably lousy! Going back to hard copy. Even more WORSE AND WORSE WITH UPDATES Who is buying this crap? More: No longer can increase font size Freezes every other chapter, every book Bookmark does not work Whoever is praising this app must work for the developer! more....Gets worse with any updates...... Go to,your library and tell them how bad this app is! Bring back OVERDRIVE More Reviews are a few years old and the app still is crap...they can’t fix it. Find one that works...cause it ain’t this one! Final update: After three years, I have seen zero improvements that stay in effect...it is still too glitchy If you are a library or can opt to another app... go to “ OVERDRIVE “ a great app that works. MORE I am still stuck with this terrible app since my library went CHEAP. Over a few years, nothing seems to be improved. Updates, what updates? Try to enlarge the print, huh? Glitchy all the time, try to Log on, watch the circle go round and round......and round. The yellow screen is one of my favs. ## Frequently asked questions about Axis 360 ### What does the Axis 360 app do? Axis 360 allows library and school users to search, browse, and discover ebooks and digital audiobooks available for lending. You can sync with your local library or school's digital collection to check out materials and read or listen to them within the app. ### How do I check out books with Axis 360? Once you sync the app with your library or school's digital collection, you can browse available titles. The app provides an interface to check out ebooks and audiobooks directly, allowing you to borrow them for use on your device. ### Is Axis 360 free to use? Yes, the Axis 360 app is free to download and use. It provides access to digital media collections offered by participating public libraries and schools. ### What devices is Axis 360 compatible with? The app is designed to provide a mobile experience, suggesting compatibility with smartphones and tablets. Specific operating system requirements are typically found in the app store listing. ### Can I read ebooks and listen to audiobooks in the same app? Yes, the Axis 360 app allows you to browse, check out, and enjoy both ebooks and audiobooks within a single, unified interface optimized for your device. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 9.5.3 — 2023-09-20 This build is in preparation of new features and branding. ### 9.5.2 — 2023-08-03 Bug and under the hood fixes. ### 9.4.0(1) — 2023-05-31 This build is in peperation of new features and branding. ### 9.2.5(1) — 2023-05-05 Bug fixes and preparation for our next round of features and user experience improvements. ### 9.2.4(1) — 2023-04-26 Bug fixes and preparation for our next round of features and user experience improvements. ## Apps similar to Axis 360 | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [StoryGraph: Reading Tracker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/storygraph-reading-tracker/id1570489264) | 4.5 (3,414) | Free | Books | | [Hoopla: Your Library Anywhere](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hoopla-your-library-anywhere/id580643740) | 4.8 (1,350,268) | Free | Books | | [Fable: Track & Discuss Books](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fable-track-and-discuss-books/id1488170618) | 4.8 (73,644) | Free | Books | | [JoCoLibrary](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/jocolibrary/id420401983) | 3.8 (21) | Free | Books | | [CloudLibrary](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cloudlibrary/id466446054) | 4.8 (53) | Free | Books | | [Glose](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/glose/id896681871) | 4.5 (8,008) | Free | Books | ## More apps by BAKER n TAYLOR CORPORATION - [Boundless](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/boundless/id6449712082) All apps by BAKER n TAYLOR CORPORATION: https://appshunter.io/developer/634003725 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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