The app is very convenient, especially when I use my tablet on the go. My only complaint is that the highlight function could use some work. 1. Sometimes I have to drag the cursor over the text multiple times, or from right to left in order for the highlight options to appear. 2. In the app, once text is highlighted, the bottom portion of the text is cut off by the highlighted margins of the text from the line below. I have to take an educated guess as to what the text says. I have tried both enlarging and reducing the font size, but that overlap still occurs.

I have to use Yuzu for my graduate-level classes. I also have a disability and need a screen reader. The app will not allow me to use my normal screen reader b/c they claim to offer the feature. The reader is a monotone AI/ robotic voice that completely ignores any punctuation so it reads like one giant sentence. Also, it frequently has difficulty with pronunciation so sometimes I have to try and figure out the common word it is reading. It amazes me that a company like Barnes & Noble would think Yuzu is acceptable. B&N sells books! How do they think Yuzu is accessible when:Books read within this platform require the use of the read aloud feature built within Yuzu.Users cannot directly access the text utilizing their personal screen readers and adaptive devices.Incorporates features which cannot be used by non-sighted users and through keyboard navigation, such as the highlight feature.B&N, do better!If I could give 0 stars I would.

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.

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.

Rarely do I run into an app or piece of software that is so ill-conceived, poorly designed, or stupidly frustrating. Yuzu just cost me $78 in digital content (my first and only textbook purchase) that is non-refundable from my university because I accessed it once. I use a few top-notch apps to do note-taking in a college setting. Goodnotes is my favorite, but LiquidText has some great features too. These apps are intuitive, flexible, and work with my iPad and Apple Pencil even better than paper and pen. The primary purpose of buying instead of borrowing a college textbook is to take notes on the pages. In Yuzu, this is a maddeningly awkward process. First, you touch and hold a word. Then you drag both sides of the highlight cursor to the text you want to highlight. Then you choose from a menu what you want to do (highlight, take notes, something else). Then you move on. If you want to take notes that aren't related to highlighted text, for instance if you have an original thought while you're reading, you can't really do that. What's more, you can't legally export Yuzu books to any other format such as Goodnotes, iBooks, or even PDF. I hope you read this review before spending $80 on a college textbook. Barnes & Noble, you've done a disservice to your college customers.