I am a senior at UCF, and I have been using Yuzu for some time. I like the fact that I have instant access to (most) of my ebooks for my semesters. Granted, some professors don’t offer materials that are reached through Yuzu, so we have to either use another app, or the web, or just buy a physical copy altogether. With that said, the only real issue I have with Yuzu, is that when i use the split screen function on my iPad (I have the iPad Pro 13inch) the screen almost spams from white, to dark mode throughout the entire time i am using the app. On some occasions I have even had the screen on full screen on my iPad, and even opened on my phone, and one moment the screen will be entirely in dark mode, and a few moments later it will be in light mode.The issue with this is one, aside from it being really annoying to the eye, it also closes and loads up a random page I wasn’t even on when it changes color. And another issue, is if i ever wanted to copy and past a passage, or an image, the lettering, or the picture would be in either white or black ink. Aside form that, I can’t really complain since at the end of the day im still able to keep up with my schoolwork with a click of a button. If this little issue was to be resolved for me, it be a 5/5 easily. Thanks for reading.

It’s okay for If when you’re done using the highlighting functions and notetaking system. But I find it frustrating that I can’t change the highlighters color like how I can in the web version. Blue highlighter just doesn’t cut it for me. They should really focus on their app if the want to continue marketing to college students who buy their books for their courses. I don’t see myself using this app unless they change a few things around.Update: after sitting down and playing with the app I discovered If you already have saved highlighter colors from the website the way you change the highlighter color is that you highlighter with the color already selected. Then you select whatever you highlighted and then THERE SHOULD BE color options display. Tap on that and choose the color you saved already. The reason why I still only gives this three stars (was one star) is that this highlighter option isn’t known to a lot of people hence reading a few of these reviews. So they should at least state how you change the colors of the highlighter in some sort of way. They should incorporate the web version more into the app version Still, Yuzu should update their app to make it more digital text friendly.

First thing first, I don't expect perfection from anything in life esp. technology, also if I could live in B&N I honestly would & have loved them since I was little, still do, & I am a voracious reader. That being said B&N should be ashamed of themselves with the terrible customer service but esp. since they're like 85-90% about BOOKS and READING. The fact that the kindle & ibooks apps are SUPREMELY better with overall use & book formatting should honestly make B&N feel ashamed. I think what makes it even worse is that most of us use this app because of school & getting degrees is hard enough without your school e-reader frustrating you chapter, after chapter, after chapter. You're better than this B&N & us college students need AT LEAST paragraphs that don't split midsentence causing back & forth reading, WAY more font selections & definitely font sizes need a tweak. It's either too big or so small I end up squinting or squirming trying to read comfortably. Please someone with power to change this app read & truly consider mine & everyone else's suggestions. We're trying to help ourselves with studying & making it "easier" but that is difficult without someone doing something. End of rant; thanks to those who read it all.<3

I find this to be an app designed by someone who didn’t ever learn how study. I get so much value out of pdf textbooks because of how thoroughly I can mark them up. With yuzu all you can do is highlight. Yes you can “write a note” but it’s a typed note tied to a highlight, then the note is hidden away and you have to tap the highlight to read it. Hard to imagine anyone finds that useful. You can’t solve problems in the margins. You can’t markup, draw diagrams, label. You can’t tape the book to conceal vocab and quiz yourself. You can navigate the book, read, highlight, and type notes you’ll never look at again. This semester I have used a pdf textbook in a note taking app and I have used a textbook in yuzu and the difference in my experience between the two books cannot be overstated. I feel like I have engaged deeply with the content of the pdf book, while the yuzu book is held behind a glass wall. I’m sick of this app. I’ll take the hit to my injured shoulders and order a used physical copy of the book instead so I’ll actually read for class. 2 stars because what it does, it does fine, from a technical standpoint. All of yuzu’s problems are in its design.