The Palace Project 4+

Beautiful, simple and elegant

I really like this app! It’s so simple to use and easy to find books from my library. I am finding books that I didn’t even know the library had when I was using Libby! I luv exploring my libraries “shelves” in the app, it is such an elegant design. I have yet to wait for a book to become available for there is always something great to borrow and read when I want to! I like the night mode too. I can’t believe this a library app!

Not great - not bad, but has its issues

Leaving a review as it looks like the CS team is pretty responsive. I really like the interface to search for books, which lets you drill down by genre and subgenre but also allows you to View All. Much better than Libby in the ease of use there. I wish there was a “save for later” type functionality - maybe someday. :)

Where things fall apart for me is the audiobook playback. Biggest issue is that it heats up my phone and absolutely chews through my battery - doing nothing but listening (through Bluetooth headphones, connected to my home wifi) for the ~90 minutes drained my battery (iPhone 11, 75% performance per Settings) from ~75% to ~30%. Another quibble is that when moving from one track to the next, it seems to play the new track for 15-90 seconds and then jump back to the beginning. That’s a little weird and kind of annoying, but not a dealbreaker for me like the battery issue.

Phản Hồi Từ Nhà Phát Triển ,

Hi and thank you for using the Palace app! We are currently optimizing our audiobook features and will be rolling out bug fixes for the audiobook skipping. We’re also sorry to hear that you’ve run into some technical issues regarding battery usage. If you contact us at appreview@thepalaceproject.org with the specifics surrounding your experience, we’re more than happy to open a support ticket.

So many issues…

I have had so many issues with this app. Books not downloading all the way and not being able to continue, app not updating, having to login and log out to get any updates, sometimes having to delete the app and reinstall only to lose my place in line over and over again. Also, my library doesn’t have enough subscriptions for the demand. I am constantly running into road blocks - giving myself a list of 20 books and having to wait in a long line for all of them. Very frustrating especially since I’m an avid audiobook user and I was hoping this could supplement my audible subscription.