Anobii™

The history of this app is like a rollercoaster. When you think it’s finally working, something ends up going the wrong way. I can’t find most books, so I usually add them myself, ‘til today when the app seems to not have this option anymore, and the website is in stand-by while I try to log-in. Frustrating app with good potential though.

I changed my pw on the web and now the app won't allow me to log in with the updated info.

The best feature of this app is its barcode scanner. Unfortunately there are less users than similar sites such as goodreads or librarything meaning less reviews. Also you can't add items that are not in the database such as self published ebooks. Overall still a useful app that will hopefully improve.

This app is good if you just want to keep track of your wishlist. The problem comes when you have a book that isn't on the database. There is no way to add it. The trouble with the database is that it's a bit random in which books have made it on. I have a number of books by the same author and only half of these are on the database even though they are published by the same company. It would be handy to be able to log who you have loaned books to and also be able to add books onto the database.

I use Anobii for adding reviews of all the books I read. The website is fine, and this app in THEORY is fine, but sadly fails to synchronise completely with information on the website. The scanning facility is cool, but without accurate syncing, it makes your account on the app - or the website - redundant (you need to use just one or the other). I suspect this is a bug ;)

This is really handy for adding books to my library, via the scanner and much quicker than adding them manually by title search. However, the primary attraction of anobii is the social aspect; looking at friends collections and finding other shelves. This is what I *really* want from the app.. I don't seem to be having any of the login/crash problems that some others have mentioned? All fine with mine.

Please fix it. It crashes every time I try to log in. Sometimes it crashes when I was just switching tabs. I was really looking forward to this app please fix this!

Great project and I am impressed by its occasional results. For some reason the app fails to find most of the books in my diverse library however. This includes books originally published originally in English, recently bought but not too recently published. Books published by Blackwell publishing house, by Marks & Spencer, Oxford University Press, AA,... None of them are found. Same issue with many books with a nice ISBN on the back translated into English and with most non-European language books, in spite of enabling their Setting. Really sad. Manual Search never resulted in a find. Maybe most frustrating is that the user can not add an entry manually and maybe even share it so a wider audience can benefit from an updated but now much failing database.

This is a great app for quickly finding reviews of a book you are thinking of buying. Just scan the barcode on the back of the book and it takes you to expert reviews as well as comments by other readers. Also syncs books with your anobii library. Quick and easy to use. I showed it to my father who is a school librarian and he couldn't believe his eyes!

Fast, simple, complete. Does not block, does not cancel books personal datas, does not lose book covers as it always happened with the previous free version of this app. I searched for it 'cause I meant to pay for it (I couldn't bear the appalling Lite version anymore!) and I discovered that now it's free... Well, even better! :-)