1000 Books Before Kindergarten

The concept is great but the app user interface is not very intuitive. I expected to be able to add books from the reading list section but instead it has to be done in the library section and then added to my child’s reading list. Also I have a few books where the app is not locating the ISBN information and there is no way to add books manually. This is very frustrating as I live in New Zealand and am likely to encounter many books by Kiwi authors which the US based app may not have.

Was working fine initially but now when I add books it won’t mark them as read

There seems to be a lot of faults with this app. I can only ever get 1 book to be added to the readers list. They go into the library ok but not on to the readers list.

I love the idea of this app. My issues are as follows: (1) can’t add photo of a book - it only opens the photo album and there’s only one photo and it’s the one I uploaded of my child for her PFP (2) the isbn scanner doesn’t have every title (or it pulls up the wrong book) so you have to manually input which is fine BUT (3) the search page is flawed. I should be able to search for any book uploaded by any user but unfortunately that’s not the case. I look forward to the day the app is smooth and easy to use. Our daughter is 2.5 and she’s got 175 books on her “read” list, but it’s inaccurate because of how difficult it is to search for or manually add books.

Can only choose from list

I am writing in hopes to get a response to this review. I cannot figure out how to add books to the reading list or the finished list that aren’t on the prescribed list in the app. The app does not feel very user-friendly. I have read other reviews about standing a barcode, but I see no option to scan. I want to do the 1000 books challenge with my daughter and don’t want to print out the paper logs, but this app doesn’t work very well.

I was excited to use the app to keep track of my reader’s books, but I had a hard time signing up and got an error. I messaged the group on Facebook and they were able to fix it. When I went to add my reader it wouldn’t move on to the next screen when the profile was completed, so it created multiple profiles that I ended up deleting. When you add books to the library, it works fine scanning the ISBN, but when you try to add the new book as a finished read, it may not add it to the reader’s list. Overall, it’s just okay. Hopefully there are improvements soon.

Good concept, but the app is terrible. There are never updates to fix these bugs and glitches. The books do not show up after adding a book to your library and your reading list. You have to close the app and re-open it to get it to add the book to your reading list. Books that are added manually don’t always stay in your library either. These issues need to be addressed.

It doesn’t let you add manually added books to the total book count. I’ve tried several times and deleted the app and redownloaded. Not working. It is a simple concept but poorly executed.

For some reason I can’t even add a reader! It won’t save! Unable to even use app.