Barely useful as an e-book reader
No way to search for particular words within the books.
Disgustingly terrible
I tried this app so I didn’t have to download ProQuest books one chapter at a time. I downloaded one book, look at a single page, and deleted the app immediately. The quality is so poor the words were literally illegible. Theres no way to enlarge text either, because I suppose ProQuest hates blind people. Revolting. I would give 0 stars if I could.
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Downloads always fail.
Have tried 5 books and only successfully read one. So many bugs
No search. Wrong page numbers
Page numbers do not match printed text, nor can one search. Can’t find specific passages
Useless
This is a terrible app. It provides only the most basic reading features, with no effective highlighting or annotation functions that are standard in any reading app. Navigation is slow and very cumbersome, the few available functions are often unresponsive.
Proquest should return to the use of Adobe Digital Editions until a much better app has been developed.
Proquest should return to the use of Adobe Digital Editions until a much better app has been developed.
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No books on book shelf
Please design an app that works
Not user friendly
Page numbers start on cover. Cannot increase the size of font ( selected button but it would not load); cannot browse contents (again selected button but it would not load); cannot highlight text. Not good for students or academics alike. Browser equivalent is equally disappointing.
Poor Visuals - basically unreadable
While the app will send you a copy of the book, it’s virtually unreadable both on iPhone and iPad. I don’t understand why or how such a low quality app exists? This was prompted through my university. Is someone getting a kickback or some other form of corruption? If any University/State money went to supporting this app, someone belongs in jail.
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Awful
Awfully Awful.
SMH
Downloaded the app and it does not even work.
Pretty poor effort
This is pretty bad as far as e-readers go. I think you can bookmark a page, but that’s about it. There’s no highlighting, no option for notes and no dictionary linked for looking up words. There is no comfortable option for reading at night, just a glaring super bright screen that hurts your eyes. But the worst thing is the navigation. It is quite unbelievably bad. Every time you take a break from reading, the book gets closed and you have to page through one page at a time to find where you were. You can’t even scroll, you have to tap, and there is no slider at the bottom to move through quickly. So time consuming and clunky. To get from one chapter to the next you have to go back to the contents page! I would not use this at all if they didn’t have a monopoly on some of the books I need to read.
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you cant find book
even I already add book to the in webapp the app version not show my book. so you cant read book in this useless app
Does not work
Useless I can not access any books, search any books, and it says my bookshelf is empty when it is not
None of the books on my bookshelf are viewable on the app!
Please fix!
Does not work
It was impossible to read using the app. Only blank pages where displayed.
Unusable
Still non-functional. Can download the borrowed book, but cannot see any text. The chapter and page navigation are all unresponsive.
Just use the website
The app is pointless. It lacks functionality in comparison to the website rather than adding anything to the experience. No features, no perks, not helps, you might as well just use the website.
Pointless app that does nothing
This app adds no value, only layers of frustration. No text to speech. Cumbersome set up. No quick start guide: they want you to register and sit through a webinar before you use it. Books saved to your bookshelf don’t show up unless you sign in with your institutional credentials each time you open the app. Books you download through the app don’t open in the app. If you make it through all the steps, you find the app is identical to the mobile website. There is no point to the it at all.
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Not ready
The old way was much better. This app was released and also prevents the old way of downloading books, even though it was not ready for release. Can’t annotate the books at all. We are made to use this app only to download books to read away from Wi-Fi. Very disappointed in ProQuest Ebook Central.
COMPLETELY unusable
Without exaggeration, this app has made me more frustrated than any of the thing I have had to use since start college IN 2015. Books will say downloaded but only show a blank page 0 with no way to progress. I thought it was a glitch. Uninstalled and reinstalled the app. Download and removed the book. Tried another book. Literally just does not work. I even updated my device software to try to help. It should not take a PhD to use your app, but this one requires more than that. Shameful.
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