Tertulia

I downloaded this today and my five reads for the day included a book ten years old, for seemingly no reason at all. I’m not sure if it’s a bug or a design feature.

I love that I can browse curated lists and see recommendations but I’ll say the thing I utilize the most is also the most frustrating. It is impossible to view a full self-made list in the app. I have 40 books in my to read list and I can’t scroll past the first 10 before the page reloads and puts me back at the top. I’d be happy to use this app for tracking all my books if that one thing could be fixed

Every time I try to scroll through my tbr list to move items into my cart it jumps up to the top of the list once I’m halfway down. It’s so frustrating. This is an amazing way to buy books. I’ll adjust the rating to 5* once the app stops being glitchy. Thank you!

I love this app!!! So nice to have recommendations based on your interests as well as what is buzzing. Love the list making. One complaint is the speed of the app. It’s sort of slow and glitchy at times.

Tertulia is introducing me to authors I would never read had I not visited this site. The bookstores around my home have their own editorial point of view, but Tertulia’s is as vast as I have time to explore. I love it!

Hope to add iPadOS supply

I’ve been using the Tertulia app for a little less than a year as a paying member and it’s been great. Especially over the last few months since they have been making updates and increasing user engagement. I now use it exclusively to track my books. I love the reviews and recommendations. And buying books is ridiculously easy with Apple Pay (my husband would say a little too easy!) And I have been pleasantly surprised by how quickly the books get delivered. I also like being able to send book recommendations to friends and family via text through the app. I’ve tried most of book apps available and this is one of the best.

This app has such a beautiful, simple platform / design / layout that I’ve considered abandoning all the other book and reading apps I’ve tried out or use regularly and switching over to this one exclusively. The recommendations are also shockingly good - I follow publishing and literary news pretty closely and spend a lot of time scouring the shelves of my local bookstores and libraries, so it’s unusual for me to receive a book recommendation thats both perfect for my tastes/ interests and never crossed my path before. But this app consistently serves up recs for books I know nothing about and that are extremely relevant to my interests. The one thing that is frustrating about the platform tho is the speed at which pages load. If I click on a title, it takes some time to save the book to one of my shelves, and then if I want to go back to the list I was on, it can take numerous tries at tapping the back button before the app responds. (Side note - It would also be nice if books could be shelved/saved from within the lists too). Typically I end up getting tired of how slow the app runs and close it / switch to a different app, but if the speed could be improved, I would love to spend more time using it or pay for a subscription.

The main aim of this app seems to be to get you to buy books. For somebody like me who reads a ton and gets nearly all of my books from the library, the commercial aspect is not appealing or useful. I like being able to track which books I'm reading and which books I'd like to read. The main flaw however, is that I cannot rate or review the books that I have read. UPDATED: I didn't login for a couple of weeks and when I did, all my lists are gone. Empty. All that work gathering up the books I wanted to read, wasted. So disappointing.

This is just a book discussion board as well as a bookstore. Nothing wrong with that, works great to get info, opinions, and reviews on so many books in so little time. Would enjoy an iPad app :-)