Great alternative!
Happy to have an independent option to my kindle. Easy to use, connects nicely to the store. Great app all around.
Glitchy app
I want to support independent bookstores but this app is driving me nuts. Every time I close the app at the last page I read, it never opens to that page. It usually opens to the chapter, but then I have to search for where I left off. Am I missing a setting? Certainly that would be an easy fix. Also the app is hard to take notes or highlight passages. The entire page moves with my Apple Pencil or turns the page when my hand rests on the screen to write/highlight.
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Great on mobile and tablet
I really enjoy using this app. It does what it needs to do and does it in a clean and intuitive way. I do wish they had a version optimized for desktop. I like to read on my MacBook and the experience on the app is fine, but it’s just using the tablet version. I can imagine a pretty slick version for desktop if they know that the demand is there for it to be developed.
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Thrilled to avoid Amazon
I’m thrilled to find an online store where I can buy books that’s not Amazon. I’m also happy to support independent bookstores. I’ve been able to find what I was looking for and have had no problems at all.Bookshop.org really fills a need.
Next chapter?
This is getting annoying. The next chapter button doesn’t always come up at the end of the chapter, forcing me to exit the app, open it again, and then get the next chapter button. This is really irritating when the book has a series of one-page chapters. Please fix this!
Better way to read digital books
If you love bookstores, you’ll love this digital book reader that keeps them around. Save space for more physical books by reading digitally from Bookshop and keep books from being monopolized by one company!
Buy your books here!!
Support your choice of local bookstore while you buy books online. Great service and prices. Do it!!!
Bookshop rocks!
Love the ebooks, quick checkout.
Highlighting is so difficult.
It’s impossible to highlight a sentence that ends on the next page. I tried for about 10 minutes. How is such a simple function so difficult to do in this app??
Clunky, glitchy, doesn’t even sync
I want to support my local independent bookstore, including ebook purchases. But this app is not great. Not syncing between devices, failed downloads, and the app doesn’t even seem to realize the app itself is already open so tries to prompt reading via browser. Overall, disappointing.
Malfunctioning highlighting
I like bookshop - especially like its support of local book shops. Unfortunately, I mainly read ebooks because I simply cannot store a large quantity of hard copy books. I will buy a hard copy if I think it is one I will use multiple times, or is one I can give to someone after I have read it. I read mainly nonfiction & use highlights A LOT. Often re-read a book just by reading the highlights. This function works poorly in bookshop app. Kindle is way better & I would return to kindle except I am pretty committed to NOT using Amazon.
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More Convenient Than Others…and supports local!
I love using this app! Every time I open it there’s a new “something” it can do, I’m having so much fun exploring it! Much more intuitive than others, and takes up less space. Love to support local bookstores while I’m reading!
I love this site
❤️❤️❤️
App keeps crashing can’t access my ebooks.
The last week this app keeps crashing and I haven’t been able to access my my e-books. It’s frustrating because I’ve paid for those.
Too buggy to use
Just installed it today, and found the highlighting laggy to the point where I thought I hadn’t pressed the right button. I tried again and yet again only to have text show up a few seconds later triple highlighted, which layered on so much color that I couldn’t read the underlying text. The only way to remove the highlight was go to the “notes and highlights” list and delete the highlights (in triplicate) there. I thought that perhaps quitting the program and restarting would help. I did so, but now when I run up the app, it just hangs at the splash screen and shows me a balloon. Can’t even get to my library.
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Response from developer
Thank you for the feedback and for helping us support local bookstores! We're sorry to hear about the frustration you've experienced with highlighting - that is very frustrating. Rest assured the team has been hard at work to resolve the highlighting issues. If you continue to experience this difficulty while on the most recent version of the app, please email us at help@bookshop.org so we can assist further.
What a wonderful find!
So glad I found bookshop and this app! Such a pleasure to use and a wonderful alternative to Amazon.
Awesome
User friendly
Glitchy app
I want to support independent bookstores but this app is driving me nuts. Every time I close the app at the last page I read, it never opens to that page. It usually opens to the chapter, but then I have to search for where I left off. Am I missing a setting? Certainly that would be an easy fix.
My favorite reading app
It’s still pretty new but they keep updating this app often and when I’ve emailed about bugs a real person responds and cares! I love buying ebooks and supporting indie stores, I love the settings for font and background. I use mostly on my Palma so I can read this app on an e-ink screen. I hope it keeps getting even better!
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Great custom options!
I’m a big fan of the ability to read in the size, spacing, and orientation of my choice!
