Open eBooks User Reviews

Name: Open eBooks
Rating: 3.23333 (30 reviews)

Open eBooks

The New York Public Library

📚 Education

📚 Books

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I read a book here every day and I love it

Love it❤️

AngRodFer

a year ago

Add more schools

I ended up deleting the app because my school isn't in it. I wanted to have it because I love reading, but most ebooks cost money.

KittyKat🐈‍⬛

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. Your input is valuable to us, and helps us work towards improving Open eBooks. This program is only available to students attending Title I Schoolwide Programs and other qualifying groups. For more information about school eligibility, please visit https://www.openebooks.org/faq#registration_and_eligibility. Feel free to email us at info@openebooks.org with any additional eligibility questions.

Get the full series

I haven’t looked very hard but two series that I have read don’t have all the books. For example, the scarlet rose. All they have is book 2 and 3 but there are 5 books! I like this series but I can’t read it all. I don’t even know how it started!

Chicks 24-7

4 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you for taking time to leave us a review. Your input is valuable to us, and helps us work towards improving Open eBooks. We will look to include the rest of the Scarlet Rose series in our next request to our publisher partners. Participating publishers generously donate titles to Open eBooks with consideration to requests, but it's not always possible for us to obtain requested titles. We invite you to experience Open eBooks 3.0.0! Released in March 2024, it features a streamlined user interface, genre browsing, enhanced accessibility, and over 1,000+ new titles. Learn more at https://www.openebooks.org.

Pretty Good but…

I like this app, it is really good but I don’t know if it is my phone or the app, but nothing is loading in on it. I open the app because my dad has my real books, and nothing is loading in. I don’t know if it is the app or my phone but I hope it gets fixed. Other than that, this app is really good!

ADDITHEHAWK

4 years ago

Response from developer

Hi ADDITHEHAWK. Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. Your input is valuable to us, and helps us work towards improving Open eBooks. I’d like to invite you to try the newest version of Open eBooks 3.0.0, just released in March, 2024. For more information about Open eBooks, eligibility requirements, and how to access the collection via our educational partners, please visit https://www.openebooks.org/faq. Open eBooks 3.0.0 Highlights: New streamlined interface for improved user experience New browse by genre book discovery feature Improved accessibility for personalized reading comfort Increased support for graphic novels and picture books Over 1,000 newly added titles from participating publisher partners

Glitchy

I really love this app, and I would have given 5 stars, but the app has already removed books from my account twice, and when I download them again, I am put back to the beginning of the book. There is no option to go to a particular page, which is frustrating and forces me to go one page at a time to get back to where I left off. Please fix with next update.

team_carlisle

5 years ago

Trash 🚮🚮🚮🚮😤😤😤

This app is trash, I can’t even open it without a clever or first book account.

defintly not my real name

5 years ago

Garbage

Terrible, cant play fnf 🗿🗿🗿🗿

🎷🗿 forgor💀

5 years ago

???

how the heck am i supposed to get in without clever 😑

InnaBohn

5 years ago

Download issues,

Whenever I log out and log back in, it always tells me to download it again, but when I do, it sends me to the login page, this clearly tells me incompetence on the programmers behalf. It also says that some books are “unavailable”, this is a Ebook site, how can it be unavailable, please fix.

jakcudn

5 years ago

Never opens the books

It allows me to “borrow” the books but never opens the book to let us read them.

ShawnP124

5 years ago

Trash

I can’t log in

jdhvndvhxbfnchfnfbv

5 years ago

Cant login

I sped this and I need a clever account of a first book account to login but I’m not trying to do this for school.

Jeremy the 24 year old

6 years ago

Update!!!!

I have an iPhone 11 and it won’t even let you read the book. You can still download the book but when you click to read it just shows a blank page. Please update!!!

Begyu_313

6 years ago

cuts off the top for iphone x users

I love the app for how much books I can read but the problem is half of the time i spent reading the books is usually trying to adjust so i can read the first two sentences of a page. I love how there are different settings for the background and texts which means i can read in the dark without straining my eyes. The app is also very easy to navigate. Overall, my only complaint is how it cuts off at the top.

Alison5734

6 years ago

Awww snap

Holy crap this app is insane get it now plz

kssksmsmma

6 years ago

Words cut off of page

I love the huge selection of novels in this app for students, but words are cut off at the top of my page when I read on my iPhone X. The app needs updated to account for this.

cc844511

6 years ago

Great For Those Working With Families

If you work with low income families this app is a must!!! If you subscribe to First Book you can hand subscriptions to families for free. They can access dozens of books at home for FREE! Again this is all free and the pictures are clear and crisp.

Some books don’t download but it’s because I believe they are maxed out in digital copies. So I suggest trying a different day. Or even a different book.

feelingthelove

6 years ago

Promising

I love the idea, and the selection of books on this app. However, when trying to read the books, Part of the text is cut off on the top. I have experienced this with every book I have attempted to read, and my students have as well. I hope this gets fixed so I can recommend this app to more students. Potential to be a really amazing resource!

hatysor

6 years ago

FIX TOP LINE ISSUE

I’d give this 5 stars in a heartbeat but I have an iPhone XR and the top line of books gets cut off because of the formatting of the book to fill the whole screen but where my speaker is the line gets cut. I’ve tried to downsize the text size and other things and nothing can fix it. It stinks skipping a line on every page

lilybethuna