Such Potential!
Love so many aspects of this app. I have lead my book club in using it for four years. Still so darn glitchy and inconsistent!
Has potential
This app has some great features, including the ability for each group member to be able to add their choice options for the next month’s book and the “like” button to allow the group to vote individually and anonymously. It is also convenient that when you set up the meeting time, you can opt for it to send your group members reminder emails, which is helpful considering everyone has other things going on.
I really wish there was a way to allow for a moderator or someone to oversee/manage it though, as I am the one in my group who sets it up every month. It is annoying that I have to tell the people in my group to go back and delete last months picks, and other things like that. It is also very glitchy, which can be quite frustrating at times. If they would fix these things the app would be much better.
I really wish there was a way to allow for a moderator or someone to oversee/manage it though, as I am the one in my group who sets it up every month. It is annoying that I have to tell the people in my group to go back and delete last months picks, and other things like that. It is also very glitchy, which can be quite frustrating at times. If they would fix these things the app would be much better.
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Long overdue for an update
It seems like the app is long over due for an update. You can’t delete books off potential selections or club selection list. It’s also not letting me add any books to my personal bookshelf or queue. The app lags and you have to try to do the same action several times for it to maybe work.
Edit member list
The biggest problem our book club has is we can’t edit the members in the book club. People come and go and we just keep adding on. The old members still are listed. Can they be fixed?
Makes staying organized so much easier
Love this app. It is great for setting up meetings, book selections, and has an amazing number of book giveaways.
Password errors
Trying to create a new account and won’t accept any passwords no matter how long or characters. This is really frustrating!
Love this app
This app is wonderful! It helps me manage our book club easily. I use it to schedule our meetings and it sends out invites and reminders and members can rsvp via the app. I also love having a record of all the books we have read.
Best tool to organize book club!
I Donny know how we lived without this app! My book club has met every 6 weeks for the last 15 years and organizing book club meetings became much easier when we found this app! Automated email, keeping track of our past books and love the Discover feature to find new reads. Thank you for this tool!
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Enjoy the App!
I have been using Book Movement for years so was excited to see there was an App! I like using it to keep track of my book club’s activities. Also the giveaways are amazing!
Very Helpful
This book club app has been very helpful in organizing our Bookclubs. I have three Bookclubs using it. It is so nice that it automatically generates emails announcing the next Bookclub date and choice of book and sends reminders. It has saved me a lot of time answering the same questions over and over, “what is our book next month? When is our next Bookclub? ” 🙄
What is even more invaluable in my opinion are the emails we get from Pauline with giveaways, new book suggestions and opportunities to zoom with authors! This is the best feature!!
I also love the reading guides, the suggestions for Bookclub questions and sometimes even menus and drink ideas!
Plus, Pauline, the founder, is always available to email and is very responsive.
What is even more invaluable in my opinion are the emails we get from Pauline with giveaways, new book suggestions and opportunities to zoom with authors! This is the best feature!!
I also love the reading guides, the suggestions for Bookclub questions and sometimes even menus and drink ideas!
Plus, Pauline, the founder, is always available to email and is very responsive.
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Love it
It never fails. I can always count on the recommendations from this app to find a Great Read!
Responsive
Although this app has experienced glitches in the past, the owner is responsive to correcting them and to meeting the needs shared by its users. The app allows me to quickly manage the several book clubs I participate in quickly and easily. What would make it even better is it allowing quicker messaging to members via the app or via text as opposed to email. 👌🏻
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Has potential- but can be frustrating
I want to love this app! I love that it lets us add our books up front (one of my groups pick all our books at the start of our year; and the other group picks just a few months at a time). I love that we can scroll back to see our previous reads I love that it sends reminders to start the book a week before the meeting. I love that we can add books our group has discussed but don’t want to pick as an official read just yet.
I wish that i could have a place to add my own questions or talking points for the books as I am reading. I know there’s a tab for “questions” but rarely are there any questions there; nor does it let me enter my own.
I wish there was a spot for a running group chat. Some book group conversations aren’t book specific.
And I find it very frustrating that the app itself doesn’t have a “delete” meeting option.
And it is definitely most annoying that it keeps pulling a very incorrect book cover (I wonder if it’s a trick to promote some new books). I have replaced this cover multiple times and it immediately reverts to the wrong book. The title of the book at the top of the page is correct- but definite wrong cover. The website actually shows the correct book cover. But not the app. So I know they have the correct cover in their database.
So much potential for this app to be amazing. But a few very frustrating glitches and a lack of some basic logical functions. 🫤
I wish that i could have a place to add my own questions or talking points for the books as I am reading. I know there’s a tab for “questions” but rarely are there any questions there; nor does it let me enter my own.
I wish there was a spot for a running group chat. Some book group conversations aren’t book specific.
And I find it very frustrating that the app itself doesn’t have a “delete” meeting option.
And it is definitely most annoying that it keeps pulling a very incorrect book cover (I wonder if it’s a trick to promote some new books). I have replaced this cover multiple times and it immediately reverts to the wrong book. The title of the book at the top of the page is correct- but definite wrong cover. The website actually shows the correct book cover. But not the app. So I know they have the correct cover in their database.
So much potential for this app to be amazing. But a few very frustrating glitches and a lack of some basic logical functions. 🫤
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Response from developer
Hi--it's Pauline, founder of BookMovement. I want you to love this app too & I hate that you are frustrated! First, you have a web version of your page on BookMovement.com (same login as app) which has full functionality (you can delete your meeting there.) Second, about the book covers, nothing sinister! Just a bug we are fixing in our new update coming next week. & as for the reading guides, I hand-input discussion questions, so if you email me at Pauline@bookmovement.com, I can look up and see your upcoming picks and hunt down discussion questions for you. & please email me anytime and thanks for your feedback.
It Really wish it was compatible for both android. A book club where everyone uses iOS only is rare
Wish this was compatible for both I phone and Android devices
Great book club tool
Book Movement keeps our book club organized with streamlined communication, meeting calendar, RSVP function, and full year view of our picks and hosts. I like seeing what other clubs are reading as well.
Awesome for Book club
My Book Club has been using the book movement app for about five years. It’s a great way to let everybody know what the book is and where we will be meeting. People are able to easily RSVP to the host. It’s been great for creating a list that everybody can see and that people can add potential books. Members can also rank the books and also read about them.
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Needs Update/Fixes
I like the way it visually shows books. But it needs to be easier to REMOVE books; poll members. Customize- the Explore with adjectives is useless and junks up the site. It’s been awhile since App improved, has it been abandoned? It has lots of potential
Club Selection issues
We are always struggling with the “possible selections” section. The books won’t load! For days! We meet monthly and have this issue consistently - please fix it!
Apple Users Only
I heard amazing things about this app so I downloaded it and got started organizing my book club...it was awesome!! Until we realized it is not for android users. Apple only. Bah! We have 4 members with android and can’t use this. They would need to use the website and log in. Lame.
Potentially helpful
This app is an opportunity for sure. I love the theory and it sure beats trying to work through a FB group - usually. It is a bit buggy and visually needs a cleanup. For my book club friends to use it, they’ll want something sure fire and very simple. But this may be the only book club app out there?
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