Apple Books 12+

Years ago I used to be able to see my books in categories and I loved it - I could easily find a new book for every mood, but then an update came and it disappeared and never came back… I used to quick tap top right corner to bookmark a page, now that corner closes the book… bookmarks used to be visible and tap on/off, now they don’t show unless you search them and apparently you can add multiple bookmarks to the same page… it’s harder to scroll now, and there are loading errors and I feel like each update makes the reading experience a little worse. I appreciate that someone has gone to a lot of effort to make it pretty, but please bring back the useful ways it used to work! Please focus on the user experience- we open the app to read a book, make it easy to find one (eg categories, read/not read, download date, series, authors folders, search options etc) easy to see an overview (eg tap to open in store, unless you are already reading it), easy to read (the old one-tap options showing at top/bottom were great, no excess menus or taps, just tap to hide) and basic preferences in-app for users to create their own experiences (eg to choose bookmark menu on top, always open in store first, put read goals at top, hide suggestions etc)
I challenge you to put old and new together and give the users the choice of what they want to see, are you willing? Good luck and I hope it works! -Irene

Look, I get it. There are folks in this world who need reading goals to engage with the written world.
I am the absolute opposite of those folks.
My heart sank when I got congratulated for reading two days in a row following an app update- months of effort to get my reading habits under control were made shaky in a split second. In app turn off didn’t work, and I was on the verge of panic. By chance checked the settings menu, and found the full disabling switch buried in there.
These settings should not be on by default at all, and that the update turned them on is very poor form.

Wouldn't people be happy to blow up your beloved books app with the new app? Congratulations on blowing it up. The newest update is frustatingly hard to navigate. You should stop destroying apps. The original books app was comfortable, and I like the UI but the new UI—whatever, I do not! Do you see a lot of complaints? They all hate the new UI! Just change it back and people would like it! The close button and options button is annoyingly hard to make it appear again, the page turning animation is good and now replaced with a trash animation that makes no sense to change to, the button at the bottom is terrible, change it to various button that appear by default. If you leave the new UI, people will be angry!!! So just change!!! I hate the new UI!!! It's so uncomfortable, is ridiculous, and easy to get irritate!!! Congratulations on wasting your time doing a pointless thing only to increase the amount of critical reviews! I hate the new update! The UI is just confusing to use and already lots of people are hating it! Change it back and you'll get more 5 star ratings!!! Just do it!!!