Everand: Ebooks and audiobooks 12+

BEST READING APP/AUDIO ETC

Love this application!
Use it throughout the day ALL DAY EVERY WEEK.
For such a small fee I have access to sooo many different books or audio books or even documents. The fact they can even be downloaded to use offline is amazing too.
The only constructive criticism id give is highlighting certain points should be a lot easier to use. I’d LOVE to be able to add little “footprint notes” connected into highlighting points too! Even a notes sector for each book. That would be awesome. I read a lot and would also like the whole function of turning the page to be more smoother and less glitchy feeling. If it could be run more like a reel when scrolling downwards that would be amazing!
Regardless I love this app. I’m giving it 4 stars though as there is always room for improvement. Thank you!!!!!!

Disappointing

I’d have to say that although initially Scribd looks like a book lover’s dream come true, it’s quite misleading. When I saw unlimited books per month, I tried to find the fine copy but couldn’t. I’d dislocated my knee & was laid up with more time on my hands than usual. However, after a few books I’d obviously reached my monthly limit & the books I’d saved as reading options were all marked as not being available until after a few weeks time. I’ve since seen that Scribd gives some pat answer to this issue in other reviews.

However, what I really object to with Scribd is being treated like a complete idiot with their search option. Authors & titles suddenly disappear & the most random things appear, you feel like previous searches that revealed them must have taken place in a parallel universe. This really ticks me off, just be honest with your customers. If Scribd said you can read such & such number of books per month, we could make a decision as to whether we thought a subscription was worth it or not.

There’s no quality control either with suggestions, someone who wants to read a Jane Austen or a Georgette Heyer will suddenly be inundated with an array of trashy romance novels. I initially had issues paying for my subscription, the fact it took months & multiple emails for me to get anyone’s attention in customer service should have been a warning flag for me. I only hope I don’t have the same difficulties ending my subscription.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your review and I apologize for the frustration here.

What you are encountering is our rotating library, which will cause your search engine to yield fewer results and cause specific titles to go temporarily unavailable. However, this is temporary, and our hope is your recommendations on your home screen will offer titles you are interested in while you wait.

However, if the books you're seeing are not of your interest, using our Advanced Search options may help, which you can read more on here: https://bit.ly/33euvKc

That said, please know, we have had similar reviews in the past and we are working to better this system in the future. All reviews related to this issue are presented to our engineering team, and we hope we can possibly correct this in the future. For now, I truly hope this information has been helpful and that you have a great day!

Great for audiobooks, not so much for ebooks

I’ve used Scribd now Everand on and off for years. It’s great for audiobooks. Not necessarily the most popular, mainstream or recent releases, however there are plenty of books on there and the app works well most of the time. Also for roughly the same price as audible it’s great as there’s no limit to the amount of audiobooks per month. However, I hate hate hate it for ebooks. While there are many books I would like to read on the app, the formatting is just not nice. It seems the text is just copied into it, but the formatting of the books is completely forgotten. It’s sort of like the pages are just too crowded or something. HeadingsAreLikeThis and although there is the option to change font/size and the line spacing, it just makes things worse and just hurts to try to read. I wish they would look at how books are formatted on other apps like kindle or iBooks or BorrowBox. These apps actually look similar to how the books would look in print and are so much more reader friendly.

Developer Response ,

Hi there, we would love to assist you with this. If you have a ticket open with us already, please update your review with the ticket number. Otherwise, please submit a ticket to our support team through this link: http://bit.ly/ios-review
Thanks!