Collins ebooks 4+

Have to use this as school issues ebooks for reception year on it. Works reliably but could be better.

1. Many books for this age range are of a double spread layout with illustrations and text that works across two pages but the app restricts you to a single page at a time. This means that, even with the iPad in landscape you have to skip back and forth to get the gist sometimes. Eg. a character is pointing and saying “he took it” but pointing off the edge of the page at what should be the opposite page. I think this was working correctly on the web version so please allow double spread layout on iPad too.
2. To advance or go back you have to swipe or hit small arrows on very edge of screen. Please allow an option to simply tap towards the edge of the page as on Kindle.
3. When holding down a finger over a word or just under it, it will do something unwanted such as putting a bubble near the word or drawing a rectangle around the whole page or bringing up the menu bar. Haven’t the developers ever read a book with a young child? You or the child will ALWAYS want to point at the words with your finger. It’s irritating to point at the word and then have to tap again to clear UI junk that appears, or to be forced to use the blunt end of a pen etc. For early year books need option to disable touch input near text.

Why can’t you just have a copy of the book in Books, the built in book reading app on iOS? It is perfectly adequate for taking notes and reading. I hate how so many educational companies insist you use their app and don’t give you an option to export to PDF or EPUB. Most of these apps are crap compared to the built in books app!
I understand that you need to avoid copyright and people sharing it with everyone else and not getting money but there must be another way. I wouldn’t even mind buying a copy of the book directly from the iBooks store. Pls give us an option to move the books to other apps so that we can finally get rid of these unnecessary apps that clog up space on our home screen and iPads.

There’s a lot of stuff here, it’s like education. Well it’s all about you you can just read a book a reading book well kinda good. Well there’s some bugs that got squashed on the iPad. Well it’s good 🌟 ❤️ you can read anything well it’s kind of good sometimes it just does something and then all just close the app. Well it’s kind of funny well also like Times Tables Rock Stars and also Ed shed well it’s kind of good it’s like a learning app for little kids in year two can get your child entertained to read, reading books it’s good, I downloaded the app with my guardian done that looks like a nut date. Well it doesn’t have anything but there’s no purchases. There’s no ads it’s just a exciting book app.