Worked the first time I tried it. All of the books are blank now and unusable

I was really excited to see that audiobooks are now available for Aspen books after wishing I had that feature during 1L. I am an auditory learner, and being able to “read” during my commute is such an incredible feature. After frequent problems loading casebooks on casebook connect, I was also very excited to see that there was an app where I could download them to avoid lugging around casebooks or risk having casebook connect malfunction during cold calls. Aspen has well-written casebooks that aid my learning in classes, but their supplemental materials such as online casebooks and read-aloud features are quite sub-par compared to their competitor. I now find myself groaning when I see that my professors have selected an Aspen book, not for the quality of the book itself, but because I know that I will not have the ability to listen to my text, and that casebook connect is so unreliable that I need to lug the physical book around everywhere I need it.I would truly love to see Aspen casebooks become more accessible to students, as I am far from my only classmate to experience difficulties with the supplemental materials. I have plenty of positive things to say about the books themselves, but the supplemental materials desperately need improvement.

Most of my books are available as eBooks. I rely on them so I don’t have to tote heavy books to campus and back. For whatever nonsensical reason, Aspen forces users to log onto a website to access eBooks, which is annoying because it thus requires one to be “online” or they can download on portions for “offline” access. When I received the email about Leaf, I was super excited, and immediately downloaded it assumed they finally released an App eReader but nope. This is just an audiobook application. Doesn’t let one take notes, or anything. Very disappointing. If anyone at Aspen Publishing reads this comment, take note: WE WANT AN APP TO E-READ BOOKS AND TAKE NOTES, THAT IS ACCESSIBLE EVEN WHEN OFFLINE.

Even though these are not the full books right now, it worked extremely well. I hope Aspen will hurry up and make this available for all their books. Has a nice student. I do a lot of reading/listening while in the car. I have had to use other apps to insert the text so that it will read to me. It would be nice to be able to access all my books from one place. I really hope this gets rolled out for full additions very soon.