App Profile: E zLibrary Books & Audiobooks

Milan Thalia

Rating: 5/5

Z-Library doesn't try to be flashy or overcọmplicated, and I appreciate that. It focuses on providing access to a wide range of books and audiobooks without unnecessary features cluttering the experience. The download speeds are good, file management is straightforward, and finding what I'm looking for is usually quick. The highlighting and note-taking tools are basic but functional. A practical choice for regular readers.

-- Old School --

Rating: 1/5

This app is incredibly buggy and I’m saying this as a retired app developer. To begin with, I got the lifetime subscription for free (thankfully), but each time I open the app it asks me to do it again. I do a search for a book and then tap on the one I want. Nothing happens. At that point I assumed (yeah, I know, I should never do that) a further description of it would appear with the option for it to be downloaded. Nope. Nothing. When I left the search and went back to the Home screen, then the book was there. Okay, I thought, so I have to remember that that’s how it’s done. The next horrible thing was actually trying to read the book. Prior to this, I believed the worst reading experience was the Freading app. This is much worse. My reading preferences wouldn’t stick. I’d have to redo them every time I opened the book. Sometimes it would all go blank and no matter what I did, nothing would appear. Finally, I enjoy reading in landscape with two columns. Once again, that isn’t happening. However, I will hang onto this app and hope that future updates take care of the bugs. If I didn’t enjoy reading so much, it would certainly have been deleted.

Dancincats

Rating: 2/5

I am familiar with ZLib non-app version and love it. You are able to search by title of book or author and will find what you are looking for a good 85 percent of the time. This app is cumbersome, you can only search by title, no way to sort to find what you are looking for, if you can find it and when you do find something interesting, it appears, unless it is a classic there is no way to view and or download said book. Hoping these issues will be fixed and soon. As it stands, almost fifty million books are supposed to be available, right now, not even close to that number….