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On the one hand I like it a lot. I went through a trial when they first launched and barely used it (read one book) because I couldn't get past the poor quality of the apps. I'm on a new two month trial thanks to a code I found and this time I forced myslef to use it a bit since I found they had an entire series I wanted to check out that my library didn't have and I didn't want to spend $40+ on.
Since then I've been using it quite a bit.
IMO that apps need tons of work. I use both the Android & iOS apps and both need more adjustment for books and syncing between apps only works rarely & I hate it when I've been reading for an hour and then a pop-up asks me if I want to sync to page 1. I do want to be able to switch from device to device and pickup where I left off. For audiobooks they're glitchy. Again sync works randomly. On the last book I listened to it would restart at the beginning of the current chapter when resuming from being paused which sucked. For audiobooks I've had better luck with Android than iOS. With both I randomly had problems with downloading specific audiobooks to the device as well. I also hate the pause between each chapter, but can live with it.
Reading/listening are their entire business. They really need to be taking the best out there (Marvin, Mantano, Moon+, etc. for books) (Audible for audiobooks) and modelling their features on those instead of offering the bare minimum. Not that those apps are perfect or anything, but...
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