Glose

This Kindle wannabe stumbles and stutters until you lose interest in the book. With as many commands and much design as it has copied from competitors, it’s nuts that the app isn’t more intuitive. I got thru one book, with frustration. But a quarter of the way through the second, and I gave up and bought it all over again on Kindle. Now if only I knew how to mark those 1st two books “read” and file them under another tab, well, it gives me goosebumps to contemplate. Not saying it can’t be done, just that it coulda been easier.

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This reader is definitely a early version. I prefer the dark setting for reading. When using that setting the beginning of each chapter has a white bar across the top and a white space at the end of the chapter after the words end until the end of the page. I switch between my iPhone X and iPad but the app does not appear to synchronize my location between the devices. There appears to be a issue with the app sometimes where it jumps back a few pages when reopening the book. Support for the iPhone X is required. I have flip the page slowly to read one word at a time to read the first line on every page because the iPhone X notch blocks the words. I will say I do like the green bar showing the status of how far you are through the current chapter. Over all this app needs some upgrades to bring it to the basic level that other common reader apps are at.

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It's way too easy to highlight quotes or define words--but only when you don't want to. I just spent a whole minute trying to define a word and couldn't manage it. But other times, my thumb rests on the screen, I guess, and I touch a word and the "define word" window pops up and literally takes up the whole screen. It also happens when I swipe to go back a page, for some reason. I read ebooks all the time in other apps and have never had an issue with it, but with Glose you can't avoid it. Because it's so easy to highlight quotes, it's also an effort to bring up the menu. You have to touch the edge of the screen, where in other apps it would turn the page. You can only slide the pages left, or chose the scroll continuously option. As for the definitions themselves, the app can't define a word if there's punctuation after it, such as a possessive word or a word with a comma or period at the end. I have had to tell the app multiple times that I don't want to see random people's highlights, because apparently it can't remember that. The normal font size is either too big or too small. I've taken to reading in the dyslexia font because it's a better size. There are no settings outside of the page's appearance. And turning off public quotes, of course, when it decides to remember.

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I’m reading a really good book on a terrible reading app. It won’t sync between my iPad and my phone. I tried to search for a word I know was in the text and most recently read, and the search feature simply doesn’t work. You can’t scroll through a break between chapters, it wants the beginning of every chapter at the top of the screen. So you have to read all the way to bottom at the end of the chapter. But you don’t always know when that’s coming, so you think you’re scrolling down a few lines and the next thing you know the entire page is gone. If you try to stop that from happening by leaving your finger on the screen, as other reviewer’s have mentioned, it immediately switches to definition mode for whatever word you happen to be touching. Constant aggravation while I’m trying to read my book!

The book was great, I love Chet, he was a real dog. However, the software needs work. Several times in starting a new chapter, the page would turn, then jump right back to the chapter title page. The first time was chapter 20. After some experimentation, I learned to run the slider forward twenty or so pages, then back to the page after the chapter title. Things would be fine till the start of the next chapter when the same problem would occur. Don’t waste your money on books from this source until they get the glitches ironed out.