Bookari Ebook Reader

Spinning forever trying to open an Adobe DRM (University of Chicago) book. Not encouraging that the app hasn’t been updated in two years. Abandonware? A note on ads: I don’t mind that they’re there. It gives me a chance to see if I can use the app (I can’t) before I pay for it, which I’d be entirely willing to do ... if it worked.

I got this app for the sole purpose of reading an Adobe DRM ebook. The app has spent the last hour trying to open it with no success, just an endlessly spinning wait wheel.

Avoid downloading at all costs. I attempted to open a free account and it asks for a CC number. I put in a CC number (big mistake) and was immediately hit with a $39.95 charge.

Downloaded one of the free University of Chicago ebooks. The reader keeps freezing up. Got a quick glimpse of the ads popping up.

Highlighting disappears

The free version forces you to watch increasingly intrusive advertisements before you can read your book, including some without a close button so that you have to watch all the way through and then are brought to the advertiser’s download site. It also has glitches: e.g gets stuck on a single page.

For some reasons, kybook3 remains the best ebook reader ever developed.

Unbelievably obnoxious ads completely unfeeling with a reading experience. I opened it to check a reference work but had to jump through a forced interaction and then a full screen gaming ad for like 30 seconds.

Charm to read..

Bookari v4 is extremely unstable on iPad 4 (64GB, 10.2) with cca 2.000 ebooks.