ShortBook²

Its bot great to discover that the book reading app is stuck on “verify subscription” page when you go camping w/o cell reception and actually want to read the books. Its recovers when you get to the place with reception tbh but its not always possible when you going for a week deep in the woods. Is it possible to make app remember active subscription w/o network access?

Since original Short Book is not working properly on newer hardware, I like the fact that ShortBook2 was released and I have no problem subscribing to the app opposite to one time purchase. So what is good so far: Until iOS 14, fit was possible with help of other apps to get book into the reader and read it. One star for that And one star for making an effort and releasing new app. Thank you. What is wrong so far. 1. No response from author to email sent to the address listed on support page. Not even acknowledging. 2. iCloud sync still broken. My SB2 show four times larger data size than Original SB on iPad 3. Unable to load directly from web page, iOS adds .txt and ShortBook crash. Worked for years and still working on original SB To load I have to download file, remove .txt and then add it. Still not fixed. (Maybe allow file.fb2.txt to be loaded as file.fb2) 4. When you read a book, and reopen application, you always end up 3-6 pages prior to where you stop reading 5. After iOS 14 (may be coincidence) after reopening, I end up with black screen and then app crashes. After 1st app reinstall it worked for few days, now even reinstall does not help. Can’t tell if it bad book, or bad app. Same book works fine on my older iPad with original ShortBook.

I used the original ShortBook since my very first iPhone, I paid for the app and was very happy with it until Juri stopped supporting it 3 years ago. We didn’t even get the iPhone X version with full screen reading. Instead of supporting the old app, Juri decides to release a new full screen version with subscription. Why? What ongoing service does the app provide for it to be a subscription? Anyway, you can’t use it because the app crashes and freezes every time you try to subscribe. Pass.