Fable: The Book Club App 12+

Great concept, lacks execution.

It just doesn’t foster discussion. It’s very much a numbers game with people who join the clubs as far as participation. Almost every club is people quoting their fave line and moving on, hardly responding to each other. I can understand it leaves users a lot of freedom to participate as they wish but for the most part it only contributes the freedom to not contribute. Would prefer a system that requires more from it’s users. Still, 5 stars. App serves its purpose.

Love the idea but….

I love the idea of this! And I was excited for this app! But when I was searching up books like, a court of thorn and roses series by Sarah j. Maas, blood and ash series from Sarah j. Maas and along with Jennifer l. Armentrout., crescent city series from Sarah j. Maas. Thorn of glass series from Sarah j. Maas. Flesh and fire series from Jennifer l. Armentrout. If we could some how add this to the app that would be great. Or have a way of adding on book that have not been added or new books coming out! I again can’t tell you how much I love the idea of this app. FINALLY I’m not alone reading. There’s people out there that I can connect with who reads the same books as me. But the only thing is that the books I love and cherish is not on the app. Therefore I can’t discuss it with others and share my excitement and opinions on these amazing books! I want to be able to read these books with someone who is just as interested as I am and shares the same love for them as I do. But for that to begin the book needs to be on the app. Thank you for your time and patience.

Developer Response ,

Hi there, we appreciate you providing this feedback. We are working hard on a feature where you can start your online book club using books that are not yet in our catalog. In the meantime, we are constantly expanding our catalog of 1M+ books. We will notify you as soon as we've updated this in a future release.

UPDATE: We now can add books so you can start your online book club using books that are not yet in our catalog. Please feel free to contact support@fable.co for any books that you are unable to find and we will add it for you!

One complaint

Awesome idea, but I just wish we could modify the notifications. I can have all notifications on for messages in a club, or none. There’s no way, at least that I can find, to modify what kind you get. I want to know when people are chatting in my club, but I don’t want to automatically see messages from chapters I haven’t gotten to yet. It has caused me to see spoilers unintentionally. Also, when I do click on a message from my notifications, it just pulls up that one specific message instead of the whole thread, so you don’t even know what thread they were talking in & you have to go seek it out. The app is a great concept but could definitely use improvements.

Developer Response ,

Hi Tori! Thanks so much for your feedback. We are working on improvements to our notification system, including those to prevent spoilers, as well as improvements to message threading. We will update you once we have incorporated your feedback into a future release!