Himalaya Reader

It’s free. NYT , Washington post. Free. What’s not to like?

As an app for assisting the reader to read Guttenberg's books, you would think it would offer all of Guttenberg's books. It doesn't. You can find lists of the most popular books, the most engaging, etc., but nowhere a list of all of Guttenberg's books. Moreover, if you have downloaded several books and then you wish to delete one of them, you can't. You have to delete all of them. Even if you have 50 downloads and you just want to delete one? Right ~ you have to delete all of them in order to delete one of them. So altogether this is quite an amateurish app.

Easy to use as a reader of public domain books from project Gutenberg. (And may I just say here: rot in Hell, Amazon, for making it SO hard to do so via Kindle ereader.) However: you can't bookmark your page! And you can't select a word for dictionary lookup. If these functions are available, and I am just missing them, (a) I'll be happy to be corrected and (b) rest assured I tried hard to find them before writing a review.

Jumps all over, as poor composition/placement of ads disrupts all. Can't read.

Read as much as I can. No more limit monthly limit!

I have an iPhone & a MacBook & there are no options available to sign up for a Himalaya account (only sign IN is available), rendering this app useless.

I enjoyed the app for 3-4 days until I received a dozen or more notices to pay for a service at which point I deleted the app. Fix it and I'll get the app again.

Every morning, I tap " Sync Articles" in Himalaya Reader and then start my morning routine. By the time I sit down for breakfast, I have all the articles from my favorite newspapers, The Times, The Post, The Guardian, LA Times. All articles, not just a few news feeds. Himalaya Reader manages all articles for me. I never have to worry about how the new articles come and the old ones disappeared. All I know is that I tap the 'Sync" and I get the latest newspaper. At breakfast and later on the bus to work, I would skim through the entire paper quickly by fast forwarding from article to article, saving the few article of interest and skipping though the rest. Himalaya makes this really easy for me to skim through an entire paper in a few minutes. It is really like one scan through the front page of a physical paper to pick up a couple of articles to read. Throughout of the day, I would revisit my saved articles. All my articles are automatically bookmarked and each article always brings me back to where I left off in my last reading. Himalaya Reader works almost like my little assistant. Lovely little app.

Can't read in Landscape mode, sluggish, poor UI. There are better reader apps dor your iPad.

Handy and attractive, an app with great possibilities but it won't flip horizontal on my device. That counts as a major drawback to me. When that changes, it could become an essential app.