1000 Books Before Kindergarten

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.

Does the basics but needs updates. Lots of trouble to add a book & sometimes they don’t even log. Our number of books read keeps changing without me doing so.

We add books. They don’t go toward the Read list. Love tracking our books. Just want an app that works.

Easy to add books with ISBN. But every time I add a book to the library or reading list I have to completely close out of the app for it to update, sometimes multiples times. Very inconvenient and frustrating but takes maybe 1 minute. The bugs need to be improved but I still use the app because it’s easier for me to track on my phone than to write down. Also just an annoyance, when using a screen shot for the cover of the book when manually entering books the picture is blurry. Just irks me. Also I feel like the library that comes with the app is so random? I just went through and deleted all their books and have added mine as we read them to create our own library but that’s more of an irk as well. I think the library should just start out empty and books can just be added. I did have to use the PDF help guides from the website to figure out how to use the app. It would be more helpful to just have the app take you through the steps itself once logged in.