Great app, but needs better book organization
Hello all, I love how far this app has come. I remember it when it looked like a website but now it looks really cool and neatly laid out. I do have one problem with it, though; I wish you could organize your library into folders, and then I wish you could put the books one downloads into said folders. I also wish the books would stay in the order that they were downloaded in. For example, book one of the Harry Potter series, and then book 2 of the Harry Potter series; However, that does not happen. Once I download a book, it throws it in some random order so for example, the first Harry Potter book would be there, and then the first Lord of the rings book, and finally the second Harry Potter book. It is rather annoying to have to swipe through an unorganized library. That is why I request folders and for the ability for the books to stay in the order of the book series.
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Keeps crashing since last IOS update
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Need more book info
An older version of Bard used to show the genre and narrator on new books added and on searches. Now we see the title and author. I want to be able to see and search by genre and narrator. It’s very frustrating to wade through hundreds or thousands of titles hoping to find something suitable. Remember, we can’t see well. Please consider adding back genre and narrator. Publication year would be nice too. Surely this info is already part of the metadata, and it would make the app much more useful and user friendly.
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More updates for the app and the DA two player
I have a question about this is there any possible way that when you update the app you can fix a search problem for like when you search for a book you want and as you’re going through the list of books after you click search as your swipe in your finger through all of the books if you get it, incoming phone call and then when you hang up, is it possible to fix it to where it can stay where you left off instead of having to research all over again because when you get an incoming phone call, it seems like it just goes back to the main search page and you lost all your listing of books that you can swipe through after searching now about the DA two player, I love it a lot. I really do. I love the fact that you can download books from the site. or still use cartridges but I was wondering if it’s possible if another software for the machine will be released maybe another new update keep up the good work, I enjoy it a lot if it’s possible, even if it’s not, that’s no big deal. I still love it but if it’s possible within the next software release update if there would be like a feature that were, we can actually create an ad to favorites list. I know you have the bookshelf button on the player and that’s good too but what I’m getting at is like when you get so many books inside the player if there’s a way that you can actually favor a book like maybe hold one of the buttons down to enter favorites list or something like that I know it’s gonna take time but I’m just making a suggestion for a new feature and I don’t know how to contact and make a suggestions directly on the web so I’m actually putting this in my review here on the App Store and since we already have a bookshelf button on the DA two player, I was suggesting maybe the place stop button having a new feature like how you hold it in to enter the book bookshelf that way, cause there’s two different ways to enter the bookshelf, but if it would be possible and then after you get it all figured out maybe put that little section inside your user‘s God because we have a regular bookshelf button so it would be neat to actually take and hold down on the plane and stop button and it’ll enter like some kind of maybe favorites list you can go through your favorite books without scrolling through them all I meant to say play stop button sorry for the misspelling or whatever I’m using dictation so NLS thank you I really appreciate you guys, but if it is kind of possible, that would be a real neat feature because like I was saying, we do have the bookshelf button on the player so if you can change the play stop button into like some kind of favorites. We would all have to figure that out and I don’t know how you guys would put that effort into it, but that would be a great neat little feature. Thank you guys. I mean, I get it you give us two different ways to enter the bookshelf. One is to hit the bookshelf button directly. The other is to hold down on place stop but I would suggest you maybe take place stop and hold it down to go through your favorites list had the voice prompt say entering flavors list and then you use your right left arrow to scroll through your favorite books and click click play on the book that you want or when you hit the bookshelf button as your list of books come up and it tells you the name of that book have it come on after it’s done telling you the name of the book and how long it is and everything have it come on and say add to favorites list hit info to confirm or any other key to cancel thumbs up NLS thank you guys if there’s anyway you can maybe reply to my review and say well yeah that would be possible or no. We don’t think it’d be possible but either way I still love it. I love the app. I love the book player machine, but I was just making a suggestion. Hopefully, you can read this review because that would definitely definitely be a five star feature that would be great. i’m gonna go ahead and end my review hopefully to hear from you guys soon. Thank you guys again. thank you, Library of Congress for bringing talking books and services for The Blind and visually impaired.
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Broken Bard
Since the last update, Bard is impossible to navigate with SiRI and with VoiceOver. In the main catalog of the Music Library: 1. I cannot search or select for titles and download them. 2. I’m unable to retrieve previous downloads because of lag time with voiceover. And the titles are no longer in alphabetical order or chronological order by date. 3. I’m unable to work with the Bookshelf List for the same reasons.
What happened?
What happened?
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Book request
Hello, I have started using the BARD Mobile app for maybe a few months now and I find it very nice but I beg of you please put in a feature to where we can suggest books to add to the app or just please add the trapped in the video game series that has the books trapped in a video game, trapped in a video game the invisible invasion trapped in a video game for robots revolt, etc. please add D0 Chronicles, which include the books 0G dragon planet and stargazer and please add the book interview with the robot because so far I’ve only been able to find these books on audible or learning ally, but I think this app is a lot better than the other others, but please add these books to the app and make a feature to where we can request books to be added to the app without having to go to the App Store where you like this please and thank you Joseph a.k.a. blind goose
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App Doesn’t work with braille
I am deafblind so don’t use audio. I’m giving it two stars because I know it works better with audio files. But it does not work with braille books. I can download the books ok with a braille display, but it can’t read them. I’ve tried with multiple braille displays and settings. It shows varying levels of jibberish or it doesn’t allow you to advance (pan) to the next line without going down and hitting the line button which is just awful to have to do every 20 characters. I have asked for help and they just tell me to send back the ereader for replacement. But it is not the problem. I know this because the ereader will do fine to read bookshare books and kindle books. And I’ve tried other braille displays and it works the same. This is a BARD app problem. It has nothing to do with the ereader. But they act like I don’t know what I am doing. My partner and I own an adaptive tech company. I’m willing to look into whether I am missing something, but I don’t think its me. I think it is that they don’t have anyone who really is competent in braille on their staff to fix this. So I have to remember to download a book every (month? Six months? Year? It keeps changing) to keep the service, but am basically cut out of all the braille.Disappointing from a service FOR the blind.
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I love BARD Mobile, but when I go places, it won’t let me login
I just tried to login at a different house than mine and it didn’t work. It just kept saying device registration failed and I can’t read the books that I read every night. Super annoying because at this house, I can’t watch TV because there’s no streaming services. please just send some kind of update to iOS 26.1 that stops this because this is really driving me nuts
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Can’t download
I have not been able to download an audio book for a while now. It just says that it is in the que to download. I have deleted the app and reinstalled to no avail. Can’t listen to books anymore. Real bummer!
Download problem
Could y’all please fix the problem with the downloading of the books, and magazines on your app? I downloaded up to 20, and I tried to download another, and it said that you were download Q is full. Now I am waiting, and all the books that I have downloaded referring to the audiobooks, are still on the queue for download mode. No, I’m not on Wi-Fi, I’m on cellular data. I think your app has a problem, and it is taking forever for the books referring to the audiobooks to be downloaded. I wonder if this download problem is also happening with audio magazines, even though I haven’t done it. Please fix this as issue from now on. Thank you. I believe them that your app is excellent! But please fix the issue from now on. Thanks. Sorry for the mistakes in the review. The phone acts up. Sometimes.
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Can't download books
The new update seems to have broken this app entirely. Every time I try to download something it says queue for download but never actually downloads. I followed instructions from the rail Library to DEELATE the app and reinstall it and that got rid of the existing books I had downloaded too. So now I have nothing to read. The brand Library did say that other people were having the same issue. I hope it's fixed soon so I can start reading again.
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Great library app
A great resource with a huge number of books. Very easy to use.
BARD Mobile
Good morning BARD Mobile NLS team Ulises is here. I just recently downloaded the app to the bard 2.0 and I love it. Thank you for providing this new update within iOS 26.1 keep the updates coming. I really enjoy the NLS BARD Mobile application a lot. Thank you once again a proud NLS customer and reader sincerely Ulises I give this app a total of five stars because it is one of my favorite applications for the blind and visually impact community. Thank you once again keep up the great work sincerely Ulises.
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Syncing Problem
Hello. For some reason BARD MOBILE isn't syncing my Downloads across my iOS devices. Both are signed in to the same Bard account and I reset my Apple ID password successfully, which allowed me to get the app on my new device. This is where the problem occured. My history never synced. Books and magazines gotten on 1 device would not show on the other. I am logged into the same BARD Account, so I thought my data would be stored in my account, but it's not. Please fix this, as I'm frustrated that My history isn't synced. I don’t get why Information like Book Position and other info isn't synced through the your account. I hope this issue can be fixed and BARD MOBILE Data can sync on all signed in devices. Thank you for reading, and Thank You For The App :)
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Not Working on iPad
I can’t access the app. It will not recognize my email. Very disappointed. I cant get the Zoomax ereader to work also.
Not working with IOS26
Crashes within seconds of opening or doing anything. Please fix.
Log in on apple
There are constant issues lately trying to log in on apple. I have the newest IOS and update. Normally the app rocks, but things like this basically kick you out indefinitely. It wants you to reset password but won’t let you do it on the app. Online it works, but then won’t log in either way. Sounds a system error.
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IOS 26 Braille Book Reading Problems, Please Examine This and Address
Braille used to work fine, but in ios26 it keeps going out of the book and doing the vertical scroll bar thing, and you can't move it. Autoscroll does not help. Please look into this and figure out a workaround so I can read freely again. Thanks.
Clear books from Previous downloads, read books on web and problem with reading Braille on iOS
Hello. I'd like to be able to read/listen to books on the web because Apple is not letting me reset my password. Until Apple does not make this a big problem, I would like to use Bard on web. I have a device with the app, but it would be nice to use the web on my other device to listen to a book. Also, on iOS, Attempting to read a Braille book is broken. It just shows nonsence. Also, Why can't we cleanup our Recent downloads?
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BARD Mobile
I love the app, but an equalizer feature would be nice, as well as a pitch shifter to raise or lower the pitch as well as more speed options. what does tone mean when listening to a book? is it possible to update the app to be compatible with iOS 17? this app is so fun and neat and amazing and awesome and cool and super and phenomenal. please don’t ever get rid of the book Breakthrough by Joyce Smith because it is an inspiring and true story. thank you so much for finally adding this book because I’ve been waiting to download it for a long time. it would be even more cool if you could set the speed to 0%. Please don’t ever get rid of this app because I love it so much and it’s so nice and handy and convenient. Thanks. I love how the books are read by actual humans who are expressive instead of text-to-speech. Now I can’t even adjust the tone of the book I am listening to like I used to be able to do. thanks so much for updating the app so that I can adjust the tone of the books again like I used to. Please keep the updates coming if possible. is it possible to update the app to be compatible with iOS 26? There’s nothing wrong with the app, but I was just curious. It would be super awesome, cool, fun and funny if there was an option to slow down the playback speed to 0%. I have a Brailliant BI 40X Braille display that got an update where I can download audiobooks from the built-in bard app, but I can’t find the download button anywhere once I find a book? How do I find it? Do I have to turn something on or off? Thanks.
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