A complete downgrade from the original app. I have over a hundred books in my library and none of them are sorted. Old app sorted by alphabet, and grouped series together. Now its just a messy bookshelf. Also the only way to view downloaded books is by going offline. Old app downloaded books in order to read them but you could still view your collection even if they weren’t downloaded. There is also no more bookmark feature. Finally, if you were in middle of reading a book on the old app, just opening up the app automatically took you to where you left off. In the new app you have to manually go to your library and find the book in order to resume reading. The app is alright, but at the moment it is so much worse than the old app. Please work on this!

I have spent countless hours reading hundreds of novels from Bookwalker. It’s nice to have the store and reader integrated into the same app, but that’s where the positives end. On the store side my wishlist list is replaced with a less transparent “favorite” list. No longer have an inbox to tell me about deals, upcoming releases/ preorders in series I enjoy, and the “purchase sequel” list is no where to be seen making it more difficult to continue longer stories. On the reader side the organization is completely gone. No “bookshelves” to customize and manage my books, just a long list with inadequate filters especially when missing “read, reading, and finished” filters. Not sure yet but the books don’t seem to be downloaded to the device and may need a connection to load as you read; not a major issue unless you pre download books when you know you’ll be without a stable connection.Releasing the new app in this condition is ridiculous. It “looks” nice and sleek, but lost all the actual functionality of the previous version. I plan to stay on the old reader for as long as I can. I hope they can fix this clearly unfinished app/site.

New app is mostly better, but still has some growing pains to work through. You’ll probably encounter any issues I’ve seen yourself, so I won’t spend a lot of time on that. What I will say: new app is faster on both old and new devices, has better reading options, and I love the way you can quickly flip through a book if needed. I find it weird that the arrows at the bottom move between volumes, but for certain shorter books this makes a lot of sense. Maybe make it configurable? Having the store be better integrated into the app is nice. That said, I’ll probably try to mainly purchase books from the website, since in app is a little more confusing. Makes sense though, with the cut that Apple takes, they have to do more to profit off the app sales. I’d recommend buying from the website anyway just to support the platform better, rather than giving Apple more pocket change. Excited to see where this app goes!

Over all the new app is fine and the think the good and bad even each over out in the broad strokes. The good: - it does not take multiple attempts to open the app like the old app sometimes took-when you have a book open you can click the title to see the other books in the series and open them from there - seems to load faster than the old app alert from the first time you open a bookThe bad: - no bookshelf or equivalent in the new app - opens to the store instead of your library, makes a worse user experience as it feels like a storefront first and not an e-reader, the storefront and obnoxious adds should be left for the website Now this is the one problem that I really cannot overlook, the issues with downloading books. As I’ll be at sea for extended period of time with limited internet I like to download media and barriers to this make ethical consumption all the more difficult and is what drives many to turn to piracy. That said the issue I am having is that when I select a title and choose to download if sometimes it will get the “Download scheduled” tag and then never download eve after other things are done downloading, sometimes I can just cancel the scheduled download then redo it and it works then but the real bug is that for a some titles it gets stuck with that scheduled download and I cannot even cancel it.