BibliU 12+

Sometimes when clicking download on the textbooks, the downloads don’t finish and you have to re-enter the app and do it again. Another annoying thing is that the book doesn’t lod sometimes when opening/navigating to a section in the textbook, even if you already downloaded it.

Besides all that the app is okay

Using the app is great but if you lock your device and then come back to the book again, after unlocking your device, you can no longer access different chapters. If you select a new chapter, you get stuck on a loading screen, forcing you to close and re-open the app. This happens even if you’ve downloaded the book to your device or regardless of how long the device has been locked for (1 minute or a day etc). What makes this especially annoying is that I often use the app in split screen mode to take notes on the books contents. Which means after re-opening the app, I have to readjust the split screen view each time. Everything else about the app is great but I don’t understand why the loading screen issue occurs even if the book is downloaded.

I was reading a book with the website on my laptop. Works fine. I decided I wanted to read on my iPad instead. Easy enough, Safari lets me easily open the tab on a different device.

Problem is, Bibliu force me to download their iPad app. It won’t show the page on a device it deems to be mobile. Because of how the link opens I can’t get my iPad to request the desktop page.

So I begrudgingly have to install this app, re login via my institution, blah blah. I get to the app and, guess what, it’s exactly the same as the website!

The app seems to work fine but I hate being forced to use my device in a certain way. It’s my iPad, I should be able to decide if I want the app. This is ransomware: I’m not allowed to read the book on an iPad unless I install your app. Boo hiss.

I only didn’t give one star because the app looks alright. But I still don’t want to use it.