Beware impossible to cancel
I chose the option of three months for cheaper. It’s been 4 months now of paying and I’m trying to cancel. It keeps telling me I have to pay for another month first. I only agreed to 3. I’ve paid for 4. Now I’m being forced to pay for a 5th. Just beware that if you choose a deal and try to cancel it is basically impossible. Will try again in a month.
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Beautiful App!!
lovely super user friendly interface. this app is so pretty, not glitchy, so simple to use and browsing their titles on offer is easy to do
Love BOTM
This app makes me happy every time I open it and choose a book of the month. Engaging, easy to navigate and perfect for book lovers.
Audiobook player is not usable
This is not the first bit of feedback I’ve given about the audiobook player. It’s not the first review I’ve written about the audiobook player. But since I have credits that I have to spend and my preferred method of books is audio - here we are.
The audiobook player has no book mark functionality.
The audiobook player will restart your book from beginning for any number of unknown reasons. I’ve started to take screenshots of where I last was in the book to know where I need to skip back to.
It has been YEARS of this same feedback and the refuse to update their player. Embarrassing.
The audiobook player has no book mark functionality.
The audiobook player will restart your book from beginning for any number of unknown reasons. I’ve started to take screenshots of where I last was in the book to know where I need to skip back to.
It has been YEARS of this same feedback and the refuse to update their player. Embarrassing.
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Monthly Favorite
I love getting my BOTM every month!
Happy Reading!
I am enjoying getting new books each month and exploring new authors and genres!
Love the service
I love being a Book of the Month member and look forward to choosing my book each month. The curation is always exciting, but I would love to see a much more consistent selection of books by authors of color across all genres. Elevating diverse voices and stories would make this subscription even better and more reflective of the reading community. I hope to see more representation in the upcoming monthly lineups!
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A Bookworms Dream!
I absolutely adore book of the month! It’s affordable and a great way to help you build your book collection. I highly, HIGHLY, recommend you join if you are an avid reader/bookworm like myself. It’s never going to disappoint ❤️📚
Loses Place
I’ve been using for over a year now, and have been thinking about unsubscribing due to the app constantly losing my place in a audio book. Every time I reopen the app it starts me from the beginning of the book I am reading with every book I read. I have emailed about it and they just told me to update my app, which solved nothing.
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Love this app but..
This app is great and I love being a member! But I wish it wasn’t so glitchy. Since I started using this app 5 years ago, it’s always been like this.
No Bug Fixes
Been 4 months and still am unable to use the app. Keyboard freezes at password login portion of the screen and I’m on an iPhone. And unable to use the app. Reading reviews this is clearly a known and reported issue that continues to go unfixed. I go to the website to choose my books now - but sadly it doesn’t let me rate the books there. Making it so that I cannot earn badges. The app was great, but when you cannot access something and they are not interested in fixing it- the motivation to stay connected and choose monthly books/browse for additional books dwindles. I can only imagine that it is the same for other readers. What used to be a quick easy process through the app now has me going to website every month and extra steps = extra work = less interest in buying. Time is valuable, for everyone.
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Love BOM but app needs work
My husband signed us up for BOM a while back. It’s been wonderful to get shiny new books every month. BUT, the app really sucks and needs work. Here are the problems:
1. It’s very slow and unresponsive.
2. If you are anywhere in the navigation (like All Months) and click on any book, the back button hardly ever works. So you have to basically close/reopen the app and navigate back to what you were looking at.
3. If you are looking at the book details, it doesn’t tell you if you’ve already purchased that book.
4. There is no intuitive way to see all the books you’ve purchased in the past. You have to click on “Challenge” and then “Rate books” to see them.
5. It would be really simple to add a link to the Goodreads profile for each book, so why isn’t it there? I always look up the GR reviews anyway, and it would save time. GR isn’t selling books, so it isn’t a competitor to BOM.
6. Why can’t you filter by the different search criteria across all books? E.g. Mystery + Fast Read
7. Why can’t you sort your TBR list by the different categories and filters?
Some of these are nice-to-haves obviously. But BOM really needs to fix the basic performance of the app and get the navigation working.
1. It’s very slow and unresponsive.
2. If you are anywhere in the navigation (like All Months) and click on any book, the back button hardly ever works. So you have to basically close/reopen the app and navigate back to what you were looking at.
3. If you are looking at the book details, it doesn’t tell you if you’ve already purchased that book.
4. There is no intuitive way to see all the books you’ve purchased in the past. You have to click on “Challenge” and then “Rate books” to see them.
5. It would be really simple to add a link to the Goodreads profile for each book, so why isn’t it there? I always look up the GR reviews anyway, and it would save time. GR isn’t selling books, so it isn’t a competitor to BOM.
6. Why can’t you filter by the different search criteria across all books? E.g. Mystery + Fast Read
7. Why can’t you sort your TBR list by the different categories and filters?
Some of these are nice-to-haves obviously. But BOM really needs to fix the basic performance of the app and get the navigation working.
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Can’t even unsubscribe in advance
Terrible selection, just got it for the unreliable narrator hat. I tried unsubscribing but it wouldn’t let me, I have to wait 3 months to do so.
Great service you have…
Great service you have…
Audiobooks are not a priority
I like BOTM, but as someone who primarily listens to audiobooks, their audiobook UI is god awful. It’s glitchy, in a forgotten corner of the app underneath podcasts (which I don’t even listen to), and it order the books top-down based on when you bought them, not which one you listened to most recently. Meaning if you’re finally listening to a book you bought a year ago, you’re having to scroll through 12+ titles (you can buy more than one a month if you go through their catalog) to get to the book you’re listening to. That’s already clunky, but the audiobooks page is for some reason extremely laggy. Also, more of a nitpick, but the app only shows you how many hours you have left, not how many hours you’ve listened or percentage, which makes translating that to a reading tracker like Storygraph a little clunky.
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Diversity
I am enjoying this he book club so far. I would really like to see more authors of color offered in the selection.
The worst selections in books
Every month the books we can choose from are the absolute worst. I signed up with Blood Born and We Who Will Die thinking that at least every other month a good book would be selected. 4 months and they are not good at all. I cannot wait to cancel my subscription and stop paying for these 3 star reads.
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Fraudulent at best
Book of the month charged me for credits I didn’t receive. My account has been inactive for sometime so I thought it was a mistake. However upon reinstalling the app and trying to figure out how to cancel my account for good, I realize they make it nearly impossible for this to happen. They hide the cancelation links. The help center is a joke, I emailed and never heard back.
I would be very cautious about creating an account with them. One of the biggest scams I’ve delt with!
I would be very cautious about creating an account with them. One of the biggest scams I’ve delt with!
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Love!!
I saw this as an add and truthfully I was skeptical. But I LOVE this club and the book choices are surprisingly great!
No audiobooks anymore?
There is no audiobook option on my app when trying to pick my BOTM. What gives?
Shipping
I placed my June selection on June 1st and today I received a notification that I’ll receive my June BOTM June 19-22nd. Why is the shipping going to take practically until July for me to get my book? One book is going to take nearly a month to arrive?
