Litres: Audio

The app is stuck on “it will take longer to load file”

Please, please fix it: I'm listening on max speed 2.25 and in the last two versions the voice pitch became very high making the voice robotic. Have to switch to your app with both audio and text versions of the books. Plz listen any book on high speed in this and your other app to see the dramatic difference

I’ve been using this app for a long time. Namely because there isn’t much out there when it comes to Russian books. It’s always been a struggle one way or another. Until recently books randomly would skip/rewind or go out of sync. Sometimes I even heard two separate portions of the book at the same time. It’s like two readers speaking at once. May be it’s a new system for geniuses they are developing. Jokes aside, These issues are frustrating enough when you simply sit while listening but when you drive it becomes a nightmare. Restarting the app and trying to find the spot you are supposed to listen is a serious project and can even be dangerous if driving. I had to pull over to simply resume the book. This sort of thing seems to be fixed as of now but for the price of the books the charge it should not be there at all. If Netflix can remember where you stopped watching the movie even during power loss, this app should do it too. It’s not very complex. Downloading the book seems to be another issue. It’s not intuitive. It will stop when you close the app but won’t restart when you open it again. It seems to download the book only when it has to. And usually this happens while I am driving. Needless to say it increased my date usage and brought be to a point where I had to pay penalties to AT&T. Basically I have to babysit the app in order for this not to happen. And I am aware that I can disable the cellular download but it’s not the point here. Download the book entirely at once should work. This app doesn’t deserve a one star rate no but I am using it, paid a lot for the books and feel neglected as a customer. You should do a much better job with it guys. And I will be happy to revisit this review in the future.