London Review of Books 4+
LRB Limited
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Performance enhancements
The London Review of Books is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas.
Published twice a month, the LRB is home to the most exciting writing on literature, history, politics, philosophy, art, poetry and more.
Already a subscriber? Simply install the app and sign in with your LRB website login details.
App features
- Read the LRB anywhere, even offline
- Get the latest issue on Wednesday, before it hits the newsstand
- Save articles for later reference
- Resize text for easy reading
- Dark mode option
- Access ten years of the LRB dating back to 2014
Subscribing via the app
- The app is free to download and comes with a free preview issue
- Subscribers to the LRB magazine can access the app with their LRB website login and do not require a separate app subscription
- Subscriptions made via the app, however, do not include access to the LRB website and online archive
- In the app, you can purchase individual issues of the magazine or an annual subscription
- Subscriptions are charged to your Apple account and managed in App Store account settings
- All subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the subscription period
- If your subscription lapses, you will still be able to read the issues published while you were an active subscriber
What’s New
Version 4.1
App improvements and performance enhancements
Ratings and Reviews
reading LRB on iOS now a pleasure
I live abroad now and reading the LRB on my iPad is excellent. The paper issues don’t always catch up with me, but the app means that I can always have the recent issues with me.
The interface is simple and not too confusing, and they’ve resisted the temptation to use keywords and metadata to give you a deep dive into the archives at the end of each a article. Instead you have just the next article.
The only thing that’s missing is a way of checking out the historical archives, but to be honest I would only use it to read the personal sections.
Long articles, some very interesting
The poems are usually opaque, very occasionally interesting.
Book reviews can be very long and interesting, full enough to save you the trouble of reading some important nonfiction books.
The LRB sometimes has lengthy and really interesting articles on major questions of the day. A memorable case was the entire issue given over to what really happened on the day of the Grenfell Tower fire and on the days afterwards.
Too often we get long articles about obscure people, and letters putting right extremely minor questions about who did or didn’t say something or wasn’t or was somewhere. In thirty years’ time the LRB will have an article about a minor artist who did or did not spend time with one of Banksy’s relatives.
But when it’s good, it’s very good.
Good - even better with a couple of tweaks
I wonder if the developer could put in a search function? It would really enhance the experience of using the app for me. If I’ve forgotten to save something to the scrapbook it’s really hard to find again.
The other thing that would improve it for me is if it was easier to get the menu lines to pop up - it feels like you really have to work to make them appear in order to go back to the contents page or home page when you’re inside an article.
Other than that I do enjoy the minimalist look - leaves the words to speak for themselves and doesn’t distract you.
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Information
- Provider
- LRB Ltd
- Size
- 28.6 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- Copyright © LRB (London) Ltd. 2023.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- London Review of Books £94.99
- Volume 40 Number 11 £4.99
- Volume 42 Number 8 £4.99
- Volume 43 Number 1 £4.99
- Volume 38 Number 15 £4.99
- Volume 38 Number 17 £4.99
- Volume 38 Number 14 £4.99
- Volume 42 Number 7 £4.99
- Volume 42 Number 6 £4.99
- Volume 39 Number 9 £4.99