I like the NetGalley service but the app is pretty awful for a reading app because it cuts off the top and the bottom of the book. There’s a shaded area at top and bottom of page and so you can’t see the last few sentences of each page. It’s totally infuriating…

This app is the only way to listen to audiobooks from NetGalley (I highly prefer the Kindle app to read the ebooks from them instead) and like many others I find the lack of increments in listening speed a bit annoying (sometimes 1.5 is too slow and 1.75 too fast). Also, I have tried repeatedly to remove audiobook downloads and every time it tells me “fail to remove.” This is frustrating because then I can’t clear space on my phone. Some I don’t necessarily want to fully delete (even that sometimes won’t work) but it would be appreciated to have a way to do this (especially since it gives the option!)

I send all my ebooks to my kindle, but audios have to be listened to in the Shelf app, and the functionality leaves much to be desired. The speed options are only available in .25 increments, so depending on narrator, it’s often either too fast or too slow because I cannot fine tune. I also couldn’t find a place to adjust skip forward/back times, leaving 30 sec as the only option. A simplified car interface would be a nice option for listening while driving and not having to focus to closely on the screen to start/stop/rewind.

As a NetGalley ARC reviewer, I generally have ARCs sent to my Kindle. But some have formatting issues that make them very difficult to read that way, so I will revert to the NetGalley app. But the app really needs enhancing. It’s impossible to change it to dark mode (the option exists but doesn’t work); it’s impossible to highlight text or copy it for quotes in your reviews; the app loses your place easily and quickly; it’s impossible to change the size of the text. For a reading app it really makes it difficult to read.