Just short of being an excellent effort!
I would have rated it as a five star effort but there are a couple of things that need addressing, mainly: * I agree with the other reviewer regarding price. I can understand that royalty, typesetting and infrastructure provision costs money and there must be a subscription fee. However, considering that most of the users/ readers are likely to be from Urdu speaking world, fee needs to be more realistic. The annual option is better but a similarish monthly fee should be introduced. Per download fee is not a bad idea. Maybe both options can be made available. * As an e-reader it is a bit rough around the edges. The beige/ yellowish background with watermark is not to everyone's taste. I reckon a few choices like black text on white and a high contrast white on black would be good. Also the options to adjust font size and brightness would be good features. * More books should be added at a realistic pace to make it more attractive to the subscribers. I understand it won’t be easy to obtain the rights for the more popular novels, travelogues and non-fiction books but if Ibn e Safi’s all books, A Hameed’s Amber Naag Maria series and other classic books can be made available, that would make this application worth subscribing to. I hope the developers are working on this already. It would be good if they could add a section to announce new books coming soon. * Navigation in some areas does not work as expected. One has to go back to the homepage and navigate again. But that is not a huge problem. Overall it is a very good ebook collection with a lot of potential. I sincerely hope that it will be a success. I’ll be subscribing this, at least for one year. If it continues to add good books regularly, I’d remain a loyal subscriber. Good work and thank you very much for developing this application and providing a true ebook reading experience for Urdu books!
