Not the worst
This app gives the books you need and works decently enough. However, this was proprietary to the textbook I needed to read and I would much prefer a different reader. Additionally, the read aloud feature is what I would expect from technology made 20 years ago. There’s no reason they can’t have better voice options today. Naturally, they make it impossible to export as an EPUB or PDF because they want you to use their app and not share those files with others, but that punishes those of us who just want our own digital content delivered in a better format. I do not plan to continue using this after the semester.
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Almost great
It’s user friendly and easy to highlight with an Apple Pencil on the iPad. I dislike the jump to next feature on the iPhone when Im trying to quickly scroll through pages. The feature lands on the screen where my thumb scrolls downward and upward (especially if I’m using it one handed) and I end up pressing it by accident.
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Worst!
There is a frustrating bug in the current version. When dealing with books that have small fonts, I need to pinch-to-zoom to read the lines properly. Unfortunately, once zoomed in, the markup feature stops working, preventing me from highlighting or annotating important words. I have to zoom back out to use markup, but then the text is too small to see what I'm highlighting. Please fix this conflict between zoom and markup!
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Unusable in its current state
I appreciate there is an app that makes it easier to access academic books digitally. But there are some aspects that *must* be fixed because the app is practically unusable right now! At least on iPad. The main two issues are:
1. Any time I interact with the book I am reading, it will skip ahead around 10 pages from where I was. Whether it be from highlighting, trying to bookmark a page, tapping the center to remove the peripheral menu, or sometimes just scrolling as usual, this happens so often that I have considered just getting the physical book to avoid this nonsense.
2. There needs to be similar options to customize and move through the book like with Kindle. The three options to get through the book are to scroll, a paginated swipe, or chapter scroll. Even with the paginated system, I have to actually swipe to change the page every time? I can’t just tap on the right or left of the screen to move forward or back, which aces no sense to me. Every other ereader app does this.
As for nice-to-haves, I would appreciate being able to write in the margins to take notes while I read the text. But the two issue above need to be addressed before I can even consider using this app for law school.
1. Any time I interact with the book I am reading, it will skip ahead around 10 pages from where I was. Whether it be from highlighting, trying to bookmark a page, tapping the center to remove the peripheral menu, or sometimes just scrolling as usual, this happens so often that I have considered just getting the physical book to avoid this nonsense.
2. There needs to be similar options to customize and move through the book like with Kindle. The three options to get through the book are to scroll, a paginated swipe, or chapter scroll. Even with the paginated system, I have to actually swipe to change the page every time? I can’t just tap on the right or left of the screen to move forward or back, which aces no sense to me. Every other ereader app does this.
As for nice-to-haves, I would appreciate being able to write in the margins to take notes while I read the text. But the two issue above need to be addressed before I can even consider using this app for law school.
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AI Voices
I just start taking courses again and am enjoying the ai feature very much. Hopefully it will be made for all books soon
