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Great content! Introduced me to some great books.
Unfortunately this app is just so friggin buggy. At some point it switched back to its horrible lime green Ui, which seems to be a bug in itself, but generally it just makes finding and reading the comics so much more difficult than it needs to be. Case in point: I was reading a well loved manga today, and the pages of the book simply won’t display when the iPad is tilted in profile view.
For the love of Mike, get some fixes in there. Implement a functional search feature. The list goes on.

1. If you are going to offer something and place it on the popular page… make sure it works and is there?

2. Don’t make the page bounce when I swipe. It is incredibly unnecessary.

3. Tri panel swiping should be up and down, not left and right.

4. Make the middle tap menu pull up faster. It takes a full three seconds before responding.

5. Remove swiping out of the book entirely. Just force me to use the X button. If I want to go back to a page, half the time I’m swiping out of the whole book.

6. Allow the reader to place books into each completion status. When I finish a book, let me put it in “finished” because it doesn’t do it by itself (or at least hasn’t yet).

7. Loading times are loooong. Especially when I’m just browsing for something new in Featured or Popular.

Generally, I enjoy the app. It is great to have access to so many things I can’t check out at my own library. But if I spend more time fighting with the UI than I do reading, there’s a problem.

The app has a decent selection of popular titles in their entirety, but a number of bugs and odd design choices make it pain to use. Like others have said, swiping on the left side of the screen and accidentally closing your book is really annoying. I just ran into a bug today with Beserk Volume 5, where in 2 page mode, the pages are swapped. Streaming is also quite laggy. Comparable reading apps offer a much smoother experience. Hoping that with time the kinks can be worked out, but in the meantime it’s just a passable experience.