Please fix the bookmark issue!!
Since updating my phone, the new double-tap bookmark method is driving me NUTS. The way it will randomly bookmark with the slightest touch is SO annoying. Please fix or go back to the way it was!!!
Description
Apple Books is the best place to discover, read and listen to entertaining and informative books and audiobooks. Browse through top charts, personalised recommendations and expertly curated collections in the Book Store and Audiobook Store, or use search to easily find the perfect read or listen, no subscription needed. Track what you’ve read and want to read, and set your own reading goals—all in one app and across all your Apple devices.
Explore millions of books and audiobooks
• Check out today’s bestsellers, free books and special offers for readers of all ages, plus personalised recommendations.
• Explore collections curated by the Apple Books team to find your next book or audiobook in your favourite genres, from mysteries and thrillers to romance, history, self-development and kids.
• Sample any book or preview an audiobook to start enjoying the first few pages for free.
• Keep track of the books and audiobooks you’re interested in with your Want to Read list.
Customise your reading experience
• Choose from a selection of reading themes, which include a variety of fonts and background colours.
• Make your book easy to read by adjusting line height and letter spacing to your preference.
• Use Auto-Night Theme and adjust your screen brightness to make reading more comfortable for your eyes.
• Enable vertical scrolling to move continuously through books instead of flipping pages.
Make reading a habit with Reading Goals
• Set a reading goal to encourage yourself to read daily.
• Track reading streaks and how many books you’ve read this year.
• Get reminders and coaching to help you achieve your reading goals.
Share with your whole family
• Family Sharing lets you enjoy your books and audiobooks with your favourite people. Invite up to five family members.
Apple CarPlay
• Designed with safety in mind, the Audiobooks app in Apple CarPlay allows you to listen to audiobooks while driving.
• Large buttons make it easy to start and stop, rewind or fast forward, and the simplified library helps you find your next audiobook while still keeping your eyes on the road.
Apple Watch features
• Use the Audiobooks app on Apple Watch to get back to your recent audiobooks or browse your library right from your wrist.
• Use the Watch app on iPhone to choose which audiobooks to download to your Apple Watch.
Requirements & store availability
• iPhone requires iOS 11 or later.
• iPad requires iPadOS 11 or later.
• Content varies by country or region and may not be available on all devices.
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Explore millions of books and audiobooks
• Check out today’s bestsellers, free books and special offers for readers of all ages, plus personalised recommendations.
• Explore collections curated by the Apple Books team to find your next book or audiobook in your favourite genres, from mysteries and thrillers to romance, history, self-development and kids.
• Sample any book or preview an audiobook to start enjoying the first few pages for free.
• Keep track of the books and audiobooks you’re interested in with your Want to Read list.
Customise your reading experience
• Choose from a selection of reading themes, which include a variety of fonts and background colours.
• Make your book easy to read by adjusting line height and letter spacing to your preference.
• Use Auto-Night Theme and adjust your screen brightness to make reading more comfortable for your eyes.
• Enable vertical scrolling to move continuously through books instead of flipping pages.
Make reading a habit with Reading Goals
• Set a reading goal to encourage yourself to read daily.
• Track reading streaks and how many books you’ve read this year.
• Get reminders and coaching to help you achieve your reading goals.
Share with your whole family
• Family Sharing lets you enjoy your books and audiobooks with your favourite people. Invite up to five family members.
Apple CarPlay
• Designed with safety in mind, the Audiobooks app in Apple CarPlay allows you to listen to audiobooks while driving.
• Large buttons make it easy to start and stop, rewind or fast forward, and the simplified library helps you find your next audiobook while still keeping your eyes on the road.
Apple Watch features
• Use the Audiobooks app on Apple Watch to get back to your recent audiobooks or browse your library right from your wrist.
• Use the Watch app on iPhone to choose which audiobooks to download to your Apple Watch.
Requirements & store availability
• iPhone requires iOS 11 or later.
• iPad requires iPadOS 11 or later.
• Content varies by country or region and may not be available on all devices.
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4.01 out of 5
29,514 ratings in United States
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Destroyed
Thoughtless design, overall degradation. Terribly slow, glitchy, buggy. A previously good app ruined by iOS 16.
Poor function since update
Used to read books on here all the time, but now that scrolling is not working (closes app and cannot switch books) I find little use for it. It’s locking up and you can’t switch books either.
HATE the redesign of this app
This is not an improvement. The new design is awkward and annoying. The bookmark feature does not always work. You have to continuously close out the app and reopen it so that you may actually mark that page by touching the bookmark icon. Also, before, I only had to reach up with my finger to mark it. Now I have to open the new thing, (which is placed annoyingly down at the bottom right where I have to try to reach it with my thumb without dropping my phone, as most people are right handed, this is likely not just my problem) and then hope the bookmark works. I dislike all of the changes. I should not have to open something to see how far I’ve read in the book. I miss the line that ran down the side in the right margin area. NOBODY ASKED FOR THIS.
update ruined the app
I am also one of many users who is displeased with the updates to the apple books app. The new page turn animation is clunky, ugly, and headache inducing, and an insult to the old one that captured the wonder of reading. I find this new card shuffle animation extremely grating and it has pushed me to picking new apps to use to read. Aside from that the tiny menu button is virtually useless in its unreadability. Apple books was previously one of my most used apps and it’s now unfortunately ruined.
If it ain’t broke, don’t “fix” it!!
This app used to be perfect! The update has ruined a perfectly good app. Now it’s not any better than the Kindle app. Page turning is clunky. There is no longer an easy way to exit the book and return to your library. The search function is now useless. There are just too many problems to list. The solution is to restore the functionality of the previous version.
Disappointed
This was a good app and I have several books that I would read frequently. I guess since the last update now it just locks up and will not scroll to the next page and when you click on the context button it won’t load and the kick out of the screen.
What Happened?!?!
Was the most recent update tested? I can no longer go to various book chapters via the TOC. Also, highlighting has become arduous, cumbersome, and frustrating.
No Audiobook Chapter Titles
Why don’t the audiobooks have chapter titles? I have no idea what part of the book I’m on, it just says “Track 1”, “Track 2”, etc.
New update is very bad wish I could old version back
Totally user unfriendly
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Top Free
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Top Free
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176
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Top Free
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176
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Top Free
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185
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Top Free
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189
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3 years ago | |
My Books – Unlimited Library
Use your free time to read
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305
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3 years ago | |
Barnes & Noble NOOK
eBooks, audiobooks, and more
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233
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1 month ago | |
Ebook Reader
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270
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2 years ago | |
Google Play Books & Audiobooks
Books & Audiobooks
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371
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1 month ago | |
Audiobooks.com: Get audiobooks
Listen to novels
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452
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1 week ago | |
LibriVox Audio Books
40,000 unlimited audiobooks
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129
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2 weeks ago | |
Chirp Audiobooks
No subscription required
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277
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2 months ago | |
eBook Search - download books
Paper free book library
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37
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7 months ago |
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App Info
- Category
- Books
- Publisher
- Apple
- Languages
- Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek (modern), Hebrew (modern), Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Recent version
- 4.8 (2 weeks ago )
- Released on
- May 25, 2010 (14 years ago )
- Also available in
- United States, China, Russia, United Kingdom, Japan, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Germany, Australia, France, India, Spain, Italy, Ukraine, Turkey, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Philippines, Vietnam, Chile, Netherlands, South Africa, Nigeria, Switzerland, Poland, Taiwan, Argentina, Portugal, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea, Belgium, Czechia, Peru, Sweden, Kazakhstan, Dominican Republic, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Romania, Singapore, Hungary, Israel, Austria, Pakistan, Ecuador, Ireland, Norway, Denmark, Greece, Belarus, Algeria, Finland, Slovakia, Kuwait, Lebanon, Azerbaijan, Slovenia
- Last updated
- 1 hour ago