BoomReader Parents

It depresses me that I have to use this app. Using tech is supposed to make life easier, but I find that I have to go through more steps vs writing it down. When the app doesn't recognise the book it is painful to have to manually enter the details as predictive text has an issue with the name of most authors.

Need to use it for school. The app is a mess though. If the book title is more than 20 characters long you can’t read it anymore, which is useless when you are reading a series. You can’t edit the title either. I ended up just using the web version, which has its own design issues but at least I can see what I’m doing.

06/03/24 Edited and 2 stars given back. The app developers listened and brought back the completed book function. Good listening. Still not brilliant but it’s getting there. Not a great interface. Not intuitive. They have removed the “completed book feature” on reading log.

Took away the ability to mark book as pages 1 to end, now you have to count all the pages of every book manually, as some books don’t have page numbers

Why take away the tick box for when you read a whole book in one go? Pretty much all the books my son has don’t have page numbers so I have to count how many pages there are to record it properly and most of the time I just don’t bother anymore. Makes us look like we don’t read with our child but it’s just that the app is designed by people who must not actually use it themselves

New update last month Jan 2024 was rubbish. No features of “reading complete” after finishing a book. My child is really upset and now doesn’t want to read any more. Please fix it asap!

Latest update “improve interface for completing books”. Yep, improved by taking the option away

The latest update is terrible. You can no longer mark a book as complete, you have to put an end page number in. Also when marking as complete in the follow up step it flags it as completed on the current day, no longer possible to add completions retrospectively.

Although this is a brilliant idea, the app has always felt a bit glitchy. The latest update has made things worse as you don’t have the option to say that you read to the end of the book on the initial screen and not all picture books have page numbers.

It no longer has the option to say you have read the whole book when entering details. You have to enter the page from and to, you cannot flick a radio button any more to say you have read the lot. Ok when the pages are numbered but if they’re not….