Helps me pick good books to read
Been using this for a few months now. I’m not a huge reader and could never find any books i could get into. Really enjoying the selection I’m recommended by Novellic and I just might read more than three books this year!
Not for me
I did not like how books were chosen for recommendation so I wanted to delete my account. But it refuses to let me.
You have to enter your name to delete the account. I’ve done my name, user name, password…. Nothing works it will not delete my account!
You have to enter your name to delete the account. I’ve done my name, user name, password…. Nothing works it will not delete my account!
Response from developer
Hello - we're sorry you didn't enjoy your experience on Novellic and want to delete your account. The bug with account deletion was fixed in the latest app updates but if you're still having issues please e-mail us at be@novellic.com and we'll happily support your request.
Good Ideas, Bad Execution
Love the ideas that this app is clearly trying to pull off. Getting recommendations automated based on your reading habits and being able to ask for specific recommendations from the community would be fantastic. Unfortunately this app is kind of impossible to use or understand.
There’s no guidance for how the books you input on your profile will affect your recommendations, seemingly anything you’ve read is counted as a thing you want more of and the only way to indicate dislike for a book is saying you didn’t finish it, which just isn’t always the case. Also inputting books by looking each up individually is such a hassle.
As for the community recommendations, as you’re typing out a request or response there’s no indication that there’s a character limit but apparently there is because I’ve seen both requests and responses that simply cut off in the middle of a word. I had this happen to one of my own and there was no indication that I couldn’t write a response that was that length. To top it all off, there’s no organization in the search function. You can’t search for an author and find all of their works. When you search some books a bunch of editions show up with no indication of what the differences are other than the covers. Oh, and there’s a lot of books and authors that apparently just don’t exist to this app and there’s no way to add them yourself or request that they be added. And I’m not talking about some small time indie author, this includes best selling authors with half a dozen books put out by a major publisher.
Overall, a frustrating waste of time trying to use this app. I can only hope that they’ll improve it but given that it’s apparently existed for at least four years already I don’t have much hope.
Shoutout to Megwithbooks for selling her audience this broken app as if it were perfect 😒
There’s no guidance for how the books you input on your profile will affect your recommendations, seemingly anything you’ve read is counted as a thing you want more of and the only way to indicate dislike for a book is saying you didn’t finish it, which just isn’t always the case. Also inputting books by looking each up individually is such a hassle.
As for the community recommendations, as you’re typing out a request or response there’s no indication that there’s a character limit but apparently there is because I’ve seen both requests and responses that simply cut off in the middle of a word. I had this happen to one of my own and there was no indication that I couldn’t write a response that was that length. To top it all off, there’s no organization in the search function. You can’t search for an author and find all of their works. When you search some books a bunch of editions show up with no indication of what the differences are other than the covers. Oh, and there’s a lot of books and authors that apparently just don’t exist to this app and there’s no way to add them yourself or request that they be added. And I’m not talking about some small time indie author, this includes best selling authors with half a dozen books put out by a major publisher.
Overall, a frustrating waste of time trying to use this app. I can only hope that they’ll improve it but given that it’s apparently existed for at least four years already I don’t have much hope.
Shoutout to Megwithbooks for selling her audience this broken app as if it were perfect 😒
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Response from developer
Hi - we're very sorry you had such a frustrating experience with the app, and thank you for taking the time to detail all the features you found challenging. This is very helpful as we work to improve and update the Novellic app! If you would be willing to have a chat with us to walk through some of your issues and how we can best address them then please reach out to us at be@novellic.com
Can’t even open the app
Really awful! You download the app, but can’t actually get onto it. It just showing you the circle of doom spinning round and round..... in 2021 this is pretty poor!
Quick response to solve my problem
EDIT: After I posted my problem on here, I received a reply from the founder, and the problem was quickly solved.
Now that I can access it, the app looks good. I had an issue with choosing favourite genres after my first login, but more genres are available through your profile. Another frustration is that many book club founders include all genres in the club profile, even if their interests are quite narrow. I assume this is so they can get more people to waste time looking at clubs that don't interest them.
It seems that you can only rate books that are already listed in the app, which is understandable but quite limiting. I have only three books on my To Be Read list in the app, but more than ten times that many in real life, which is another frustration. Still a useful app, though.
Now that I can access it, the app looks good. I had an issue with choosing favourite genres after my first login, but more genres are available through your profile. Another frustration is that many book club founders include all genres in the club profile, even if their interests are quite narrow. I assume this is so they can get more people to waste time looking at clubs that don't interest them.
It seems that you can only rate books that are already listed in the app, which is understandable but quite limiting. I have only three books on my To Be Read list in the app, but more than ten times that many in real life, which is another frustration. Still a useful app, though.
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