Not user friendly
This app is horrendous. It does not work. The app developers make it impossible to read the downloads.
Doesn’t work
I cannot get this app to download the books for me to read. They said they’re downloaded, but they already in the library. It also keeps telling me to sign in even though I am and then sometimes it force closes.
Poorly written
This app freezes and jumps around all over the place. Why would any publisher, library, or author choose this format?
Download failure
Just tried downloading a book and the pages will not download, blank pages.
Great titles, TERRIBLE App!
Once again I tried giving Freading a chance because I like how there are no wait times for books. However, it keeps saying I cannot have more books when I clearly still have more “ tokens” or whatever to borrow. It will say 1/5, meaning I can still get four books but it won’t let me.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve redownloaded this app to my mobile phone. Same issue with my Kindle— in fact, on the Kindle, it doesn’t open at all!!!!
Then I downloaded Adobe Digital Editions to read Freading.com downloaded books on there, but ADE stopped working!
I think this is the most horrid app on the market and I’m surprised it’s still here🙄
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve redownloaded this app to my mobile phone. Same issue with my Kindle— in fact, on the Kindle, it doesn’t open at all!!!!
Then I downloaded Adobe Digital Editions to read Freading.com downloaded books on there, but ADE stopped working!
I think this is the most horrid app on the market and I’m surprised it’s still here🙄
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Scam
I’m pretty sure this just works to shovel library money to the developer. I checked out a book, but there is no way to open it. This site/app has not been updated in a decade (regardless of what they claim). I’m a developer, so if I can’t figure out how to open a book that’s been checked out and downloaded, then it’s not a priority of Freeding. A simple “open book” button would do wonders.
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Endless loop
Nothing downloads. It’s an endless loop of sign in, download but you need to sign in.
Unusable
I’ve tried to download a book several times and it just keeps crashing and forcing me to sign in again and then crashing again before I can download a book.
Terrible app
Zero stars is not an option so it gets one. I usually use Libby on my iPhone but the book my library has that I want is available only via Freading. I went through the app setup process which was confusing and loaded poorly. I had to do it twice since I got error messages the first time. I finally downloaded the book but now it won’t open in the app. There’s no option to return it and try again. When I click redownload, I get an error message. I closed the app and restarted my phone. Deleted and redownloaded the app. Nothing. Awful experience. The app looks exactly the same as the website. Why bother having an app?! Asking my library to get the book in Libby format which is a MUCH better app. Frustrated. Hate this app. 😤
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Reading a book has never been easier
If you can’t get to a library, this is the next best thing. I love that I can read it on my phone and don’t have to worry about returning a book that I might not even crack. I get to read it at my leisure and don’t need to worry about wear and tear. Thank you!
The book of life by krishnamurti
Is not redownloading
Can’t sign up; No way to report problem
Writing a negative review because the developer link is dead and there is no other way to get help or contact them — no link for support on Freading.com.
When I try to sign up in the app, no confirmation email is ever sent. Yes I checked my spam and suspicious email folders. Nothing there. So the app is useless. I can’t use it and I can’t get any help.
ZERO star rating would be more accurate.
Maybe freedom should be removed from the App Store?
When I try to sign up in the app, no confirmation email is ever sent. Yes I checked my spam and suspicious email folders. Nothing there. So the app is useless. I can’t use it and I can’t get any help.
ZERO star rating would be more accurate.
Maybe freedom should be removed from the App Store?
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Just the nicest couple
Great book! Good plot twist!
Brutal
This app is terrible. Books won't open, there is no help or direction. Not sure why my library pays for this. Does anyone actually read or respond to these comments??
This is a joke right!!?
The text size is so tiny even with my phone zoomed all the way in I still need a magnifying glass. Fix this please. Like........ this is a joke right!?! And the things that should help do literally nothing. Either match the default of the phone or format the app to ask what you're reading on so the text can actually fit the damn screen.
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Crappy app
Books say they are downloaded but can’t find them anywhere, certainly aren’t in this app
Freading
Once you have a book it’s OK but I can find zero information about navigating the site and it’s very easy to get marooned on pages outside the book’s text with no way out. An unwanted pdf from another location has found its way onto the screen with my loans& I can find no way of deleting it. Expired loans are included in the list and the method of deletion is so effectively disguised I haven’t been able to find it. It seems the time spent wasted by these frustrations is almost equal to that spent reading!
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Broken app
The app is seriously broken. It tells me to log in - so I do. Then when I download a book, even the prices finished the app again said I need to log in. I do that and the app says the book is downloaded, but it doesn't show up anywhere. Horrible experience
Horrible app… can’t read anything on it
This is the app our public library uses for ebooks, and after going through the hassle of installing the app and signing up for it, I downloaded a couple books, but have no way of reading them! I click on the library button, but the books I downloaded don’t show up there for me to read! Very frustrating! Now that I read a few other reviews it appears I’m not the only one with this issue… 😡
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An update (and still one star)
As a former applications programmer I’d like to know if anyone even bothered to test this before releasing it! Trying to use the Settings to get the page to be readable is almost impossible to use. I have the font size up to its maximum and the size is still incredibly small. Many times when I try to make a change (e.g. the line height), the screen goes blank except for the settings themselves—which are then unusable—and in order to get out of it I need to close the app and reopen it. If any developer is reading this I want them to know that I’m on a 5th generation iPad using the latest iPad OS 14. Please fix this as soon as possible because I can’t possibly read anything on your app until something is done. And by the way, please implement double columns in landscape mode. Thanks. UPDATE: This observation may lead the developers to a fix. I couldn’t get Catherine Aird’s “The Calleshire Chronicles, Volume 3” in any of my other online libraries, so I was forced to use Freading. When I try to increase the font size, only the chapter name and number increase while the main text remains the same. I hope this leads to a solution. Please, please fix this!
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