Javelin Reader User Reviews

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upgrade

App that needs an upgrade

Very poor functioning app.

I had to download this app for an ebook I purchased. The highlighting tool is awful, turning pages is difficult. I cannot think of a positive attribute.

Sight

Loks like a windows software out of the 90s. Doesnt even recognize OSR in document. Just annextra app that you are stuck with for dmr reasons that makes reading experience very crappy

Neanderthalian

How is this even possible, a book reader so ugly and unpractical. So clunky and inefficient, so hateful to use? I see myself forced to use it because Eastland Press only make their ebooks available via this app. I was so keen on having those books that I went along with it but now I regret it. Not only is the app hideous and cumbersome to use, but if and when you get a new devise you have to contact Eastland press to ask them for a new release code for each book!!! Not happy at all
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Just awful, don’t bother - get a real book instead

Well there are almost no words to describe just how poor this is. Even the early kindle app had more use ability than this load of rubbish. What makes it poor? It doesn’t remember which book you last had open, nor the page you were reading, even though you can increase the text size, you need to decrease it again to turn the page.
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Garbage PDF Reader

Wont keep highlights I make on a book and doesn’t keep the page when I exit. Not worth it and a terrible reading experience.

Javelin Reader

Excellent app for reading documents and publications with digital rights management

Great alternative app for reading textbooks

Easy to use. Perfect to read text books. Basic features are intuitive to use. Tech support is very responsive to questions.

Okay..

I’m new to ebooks... I tried to download a book that I need on Kindle but that was not a success so I downloaded it in this app and its okay. It would be nice if they upgraded. Expand more on note taking options

Secure app but needs improvement

I used this app for my course work. I could search well in PC/Desktop app but IPad/IPhone app search feature is not working.

The app crashes

The app crashes whenever I try to open a book. List view solves the problem, so I'm changing my rate from 2 to 4 stars.

Not iOS 9 compatible

Crashes if you try to open anything. Can't delete files in the catalogue that have no relevance to the user. Not very useful.

Mr

Swipe control should be fixed. It sometime close the file you are reading if you swipe repeatedly. Swiping page also doesn't feel really smooth, especially compared to iBook.

Misses the target

Odd double load interface to get PDF into app. Forgets a PDF entirely between opens, so no returning to the page you were just on, and it has to re-render all the previews instead of caching them like other apps. Slow page rendering while it's rebuilding the previews, still not fast when done. Features are an odd collection of stuff, and they feel clunky. I've seen everything it does done better.
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Poor quality

The sole purpose of this app seems to be securing their books. The reading experience is very poor. You have to click to a catalogue every time you go to the app, find your book amongst the many there and then open it up. It does not leave it open where you left off like many readers were able to do years ago. They would have done better using something like kindle that already works well since they bring nothing whatsoever to the party.
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TERRIBLE APP DO NOT BUY

This app does not work at all. It takes forever to load the pdf you have to wait 30 seconds every time you turn a page and even longer if you used there pitiful highlighting tool if you even want to call it that. DON'T BUY THUMBS DOWN!