Axis 360 Software

I really love the ability to check out ebooks and audio books, although the selection is somewhat limited. The plus side is that I don’t have to worry about being late in returning a title. The app isn’t as intuitive as I believe it could be when searching for titles or authors. A slight misspelling will get you zero results. I rated it a 4 because of the convenience and it’s ability to sync whatever I’m reading to my other devices. But there’s room for improvement. Update. Although, I haven’t seen any improvements in the search area. I would like to add that I have found that that an e-book selection usually doesn’t include the whole series! It have found that it usually has the end of the series or even a middle book, but not typically the first one. This is frustrating to say the least.

The developers need to open the app in multiple devices. The search feature is horrible. Im hoping its just on the iPad, but i doubt it. Going through my stuff is frustrating because it makes you constantly start from the checked out list, even when “back” should take you back to your wish list. The “read more” link is covered in other links and words so 9 times out of 10 when you try to get a longer synopsis, it takes you to an incorrect link. There can be issues with downloading a book. When it doesn’t finish downloading, it can give you an error with something like you have already downloaded this book. Nothing is more frustrating than when you wait for 4 months on a waiting list for this book and then cant download it because of a glitch. I have used a ton of other book reader apps and this one is the one that’s connected to my library, but the app needs quite a few updates. Please fix it. This could be a fantastic app if you just tweak it a little bit and work out all the bugs. Just use it and when you have to take more 5 extras steps more than usual to get somewhere, fix it.

This app was never great, but it is free, and gives access to public library content, so I hold it to different standards. However, version 4.0.2 on iPad is miserable. Sometimes, the status bar at the top of the screen (which reads Book and Close) disappears. Now how do you close the book? Tap wildly until you discover the place in the top left where a tap brings up the “Main Menu”, which has a Close Book item - which doesn’t work! After forcing the app to quit, the status bar reappears. But there’s still no guidance as to where to click for the menu, and its Close Book item still doesn’t work. The page turning experience is a severe disappointment. Swiping doesn’t work, you have to tap on the extreme left or right of the page. There are no visual hints that this is possible until AFTER you’ve tapped in the right place. In normal use, it is easy to turn the page by accident, but hard to tell what direction it turned because there’s no page turn animation. So now it is difficult to turn pages, but easy to lose one’s place. The app now invites me to “stream” an ordinary book. Who does that? Now, every time I open a book which is on the device, there is a considerable delay until it opens. It used to be much faster.