Bookshelf: Reading Tracker

Easy to understand and add new books, it’s lovely that we can now put the books in locations, and series, and it’s just so amazing to sort my library. I’m a bit confused when the books you wish for/want is in the library as well, perhaps put them in their own folder and not with the ‘library’ books? It would be lovely if one could select multiple books from a ‘location’ and move them all, instead of just being able to change status or delete them from there.

I think The app has a Chance to be way better if it make reading modes a free feature insted of giving you 3 sesjons without a subscrition.

App I did not know I needed. Found out I only read 8 pages an hour though. But I get to have control over all the books in my wishlist and the ones in my bookshelf. Love this app 👍

I was excited when I saw this app; a clean-looking app that does what I currently do in a Word document? Sign me up! unfortunately, this app racked up three strikes within five minuytes of downloading it. The first one was lack of Apple Books integration. I figured that Apple hadn't made an API for the app to grab all the books automatically, but I also knew that you can "share" a book from Books which is just a text string with title + author. I cannot think of an easier, more obvious integration with anything than being able to send a text string into the app and do a search for it. But nope. I could even make this integration myself if the app had a URL scheme, and while I have to admit I haven't checked if it does, I doubt it. Strike two was three books into adding them manually (Share from Books, Copy to clipboard, paste in search field...). Whatever book database this uses is BEHIND. It has books from the author, even same series, but a month old book is simply not in there. You can add books manually, but that is annoying to say the least. This is why you use more than one database. Strike 3 was seeing the resolution of one of the two books it added. Blurry and blocky as hell. There's no "find cover" feature, so back to manual editing. That's 2/3 books. As I'm writing this I also realize there's a strike 4. There's only a few fields for book metadata, with one glaring omission being the series and number in that series. I appreciate what the developer is trying to do here, and the app is free, so I guess complaining is a bit bitchy. I also expect the app to become better over time. But this is listed as version 1.4.2 and has the featureset of a beta version, if that. I do actually expect developers to number their releases somewhat logically so that it gives me some idea of the stage the app is at before I get too excited. This app shouldn't be considered a release version, let alone half way to v2.

Tell me how the app sent me a notification, knowing I had just read for 13 minutes, without me tracking it, or even opening the app?

Best app to track books! For me the aesthetics, the functionality, the organization and ease of access are important to me, and this apps ticks all boxes.

I currently give the app somewhere between a 3-4 star rating because of the handful of small bugs I’ve encountered (bug free it would be 5 star, even if it is a bit pricey). Why it’s worth it: The review capabilities of the app are phenomenal. Unlike some apps that give little to no formatting options in the book notes section, this app has far more formatting options than any other book tracking app I’ve seen and allows you to review your notes from a specific book easily. I love an organized review system and this one is top notch. Bugs: I have encountered a few small bugs that are annoying but not hugely problematic. A couple examples are 1 book that I input that refuses to be sorted by the author’s last name no matter how I type it (the last name starts with S but the book will not leave the B’s) and 3 books that will not leave my wishlist (apart from deleting them but I don’t want to lose my notes) no matter how I change their status. Annoying but not significantly inhibiting in any way.

Can’t even use the app cause when I try to upload my book list to the app it just loads forever then gives me the white screen of death. It’s likely cause I have 2000 books in my reading list on goodreads but still this app should be able to handle it. I have to delete and redownload for the app to work again but no matter what, my file won’t upload. 1 star until the app developer fixes this because it makes the app useless if I can’t use it. Replicate the bug by uploading a large file from goodreads and you’ll see it’s a problem. I’ll update my rating after this is fixed

This app is a very good virtual library. But it is not a good tracker. First of all, it’s very expensive if you want to use it for tracking. But as a library, it organizes the books nicely with the categories. However, there are many metadata issues and bugs that makes it incorrectly organized.

It’s been 3 years with bookshelf. My phone messed up and I lost my app and there is no way to log in. Everything for 3 years is GONE! Don’t use this because you can get your lost data.