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User Reviews for Axis 360
New version not improved
This app was never great, but it is free, and gives access to public library content, so I hold it to different standards. However, version 4.0.2 on iPad is miserable. Sometimes, the status bar at the top of the screen (which reads Book and Close) disappears. Now how do you close the book? Tap wildly until you discover the place in the top left where a tap brings up the “Main Menu”, which has a Close Book item - which doesn’t work!After forcing the app to quit, the status bar reappears. But there’s still no guidance as to where to click for the menu, and its Close Book item still doesn’t work. The page turning experience is a severe disappointment. Swiping doesn’t work, you have to tap on the extreme left or right of the page. There are no visual hints that this is possible until AFTER you’ve tapped in the right place. In normal use, it is easy to turn the page by accident, but hard to tell what direction it turned because there’s no page turn animation. So now it is difficult to turn pages, but easy to lose one’s place. The app now invites me to “stream” an ordinary book. Who does that? Now, every time I open a book which is on the device, there is a considerable delay until it opens. It used to be much faster.
Ruined App
I loved reading books using Axis 360 and read between 3 and 5 per week. Notice the past tense. I loved the ability to change fonts and font sizes, the comfortable amount of “white space” around each page in two-page view, and the simulated page flip. All of those, but especially the last two, made for easy reading in deep or skim modes.This latest update totally ruined the experience. I can live without changing fonts. Although it was quite a nice approximation of a real book to use the simulated page flip, I could get over it. However, what I cannot get over is the tiny amount of “white space” around and between pages. The text is crammed into tightly and extends so far to the edges that one’s eyes are constantly fatigued. No adjustment will fix this atrocity. It has completely destroyed the experience and I see no way to roll back to a saner and more comfortable version. Blah!!Update: Months later and the hits keep coming, regardless of the book or device or operating system being used. Pages won’t advance without adjusting font size up or down. Next page won’t load until the app is closed and reopened. Server access errors occur often, even with a downloaded book that was literally just being read and when there should be no server access. I could go on and on but nobody is listening. GO BACK TO THE WORKING VERSION BEFORE SOMEBODY DECIDED TO MODERNIZE—THE EXPERIMENT HAS FAILED!
Bring back the old Axis360 app
Why did you feel like you had to make IOS version look the same as web-based version? The Axis360 app from a couple of years ago was much better. (It seems to coincide with the timing of Follett buying Baker-Taylor. Could it be that Follett wants this app to fail to discourage ppl from using B-T libraries?) I serve on selection committee for our school library’s e-library. The ability for our special needs students to use speech-to-text while seeing the print version of the book was what tipped the scale in favor of Baker-Taylor. That feature no longer works. In addition, the text size option is more limited than the old Axis360 and any other reading app I’ve used. You can’t set the book down and come back to it a couple hours later without having to sign back into Axis 360. This also means they must also find their library first. All these changes makes using Axis360 app too cumbersome for many of our students. I now use our public library’s Overdrive library and the Libby app most of the time. I only use Axis360 and Baker-Taylor when I want a book that I know I selected for our Baker-Taylor library and Overdrive doesn’t have it. It is pretty sad that I can’t recommend our own library. I have even recommended to our selection committee that we cut our losses and discontinue purchasing new books and find a new e-library provider.
I love it when it works
I listen to a lot of audiobooks and this app makes that possible. I definitely would not be able to afford to buy them all! However, at points in the 4 years that I have been using this app, it has been completely unusable. I assume it’s occasional bugs, but I have seen time where the books won’t load, they won’t show up in the “my stuff” area, or the download button immediately says “expired” even if I checked it out that same day. When these things happen you just have to wait for the app to be fixed.The main trick that I’ve learned with this app is: DO NOT let the screen sleep while something is downloading. Keep the screen awake even if the connection is terrible/the book is huge and it takes a long time. Also, use the bookmark feature if you end a reading session without an internet connection, otherwise there is a chance that it forgets where you left off and you won’t have the bookmark.In general, the app has gotten so much less glitchy over these 4 years! As long as my local library only supports audiobooks on this app, I will continue to use it!
Was so excited. Then disappointed 😢
I was so excited! I had just gotten a library card for the Johnson County (KS) Library System and would be able to check out thousands of ebooks! I got the app installed and logged into and found a book I wanted. Then I tried to download it. It seemed to freeze up. I tried again it wasn’t responding at all. Then I got an error message that asked me to send a report of the error. Tapped that button and nothing. Had to force the app to quit. Finally got the book. Now I am having a hard time getting the pages to turn. With kindle I can just easily swipe, not so here. Usually have to tap it at least three times. This should not be so hard. Then in the middle of the night I woke up and couldn’t sleep so I decided to read. I couldn’t get the app to open. It said something about unable to connect to server (I think). I uninstalled and reinstalled the app then it was giving me errors and not letting me even log in. Once I finally got back in I had to redownload the book and then it opened to the wrong page. Seriously disappointed. The other library I use uses Libby which I can just download books into my kindle app. The kindle app is much more reliable. I have never had these kind of issues with it. Also it would be nice if this we’re compatible with good read. That way it would automatically mark books I am reading or have finished. I am hopeful that at least the bugs will get worked out.
That New Update
I used to love this app, despite its occasional shoddy downloading and syncopations. It was just a small issue and I could still read my books properly. Now they have this new update where the layout is all different and I really hate it. Maybe it’s just on the phone, but now going to your book is a whole process and takes a long time to load with a stark white screen with a rotating green circle. And when it’s done it doesn’t even show the book. Before it used to be really easy to change the font size, but right now those new “updates” have the fonts ridiculously large that only fit about 10 word on the screen which makes it difficult to read and are preventing me from changing them. They claim the new updates are “fixing” the bugs but now it’s so glitchy. When you try to zoom out the screen behind the pages are a bright garish yellow. When you turn the pages you never know which end of the stick you’re gonna get. Either it immediately changes to the next page and you think somethings wrong, or you wait for about 5 seconds while staring at a white screen with a roaring green circle. The menu is now really difficult to pull up too, you used to be able to pull it up with a tap of your screen but now it never responds. Overall I am extremely disappointed with the new updates, and I would really prefer it if they changed it back to how it was.
Axis 360
It works well enough but has some glitchy stuff like SearchCONSTANT SYNCING PROBLEMS AT THE END OF A CHAPTER ON A DOWNLOADED EBOOK. I’VE CHECKED AND THERE ISN’T AN UPDATE AVAILABLE FOR THE APP AND I’M RUNNING IOS 13.3. SOFT RESET FIXES PROBLEM HALF OF THE TIME. IF YOU CLOSE THE APP, WAIT A LONG WHILE, AND TRY AGAIN LATER,IT WILL BEGIN TO WORK AGAIN. NEVER EXPERIENCED THE PROBLEM WITH AUDIO BOOKS. Search"CONSTANT SYNCING PROBLEMS AT THE END OF A CHAPTER ON A DOWNLOADED EBOOK. I’VE CHECKED AND THERE ISN’T AN UPDATE AVAILABLE FOR THE APP AND I’M RUNNING IOS 13.3. SOFT RESET FIXES PROBLEM HALF OF THE TIME." nytime you bounce to another app, when you go back to Axis360 it times out. You have to wait a few seconds for it refresh to the home screen then you must touch 'my stuff' and then choose your book from your checked out tab. Then you can resume reading or listening. Another wonky thing is the thumbnail images on your stuff . Every book on your checked out, holds, or wish list tabs will display the thumbnail of the book you are currently reading or were reading last. A lot if not most other items listed will display no thumbnail image at all. Big problem with this is the icon displaying whether it is an E book or audio book is on the thumbnail so there is no way to know. With limited exception the audio books play great and with no exception the ebooks display perfectly.
Slow and Clunky
Definitely not a fan of this app. I’ve had it for a few weeks now and have primarily used it for audiobooks. I’ve only used it once for an ebook because the app was so horrible it ruined the book for me. The pages would not turn and when they did, it was often back a page or two or even to the beginning of the chapter. There was no rhyme or reason to which page I would end up on. No page numbers were even given, so it was nearly impossible to figure out where I left off. I made it to the beginning of chapter 4 of the book before giving up completely because I was so frustrated with the whole experience. As for the audiobooks, when they actually work, they work okay. Good luck getting them to work, though. It takes ages for them to download and even when they’re downloaded, pauses happen like they’re buffering. What is the point of completely downloading the audiobook to your phone if it’s just going to buffer? And when that happens, it never restarts on its own. I have to restart the whole app and hope I remember roughly where I was in the story because the app sure doesn’t know. Searching for a title through the app is pointless. Even having the exact title of a book won’t always give you the right title, despite my library system owning the rights to it. I can find it on the website itself, but searching through the app is a nightmare. Why my library system uses this, I will never understand. It’s downright awful.
Good but could be great
I’ve had the app a long time. At first I could only do e-books with it though (the audiobooks didn’t work). About a year ago the audiobooks started working too, and that has been great! There are still some improvements I would like though. I wish I could save a list of the books I have already read (ideally with some notes and a rating), for my own future use. There is no feature for doing that, so at the moment, I put books I liked, into my “wish list” (along with interesting books I haven’t read yet). While I’m talking about the wish list, I have some minor complaints about that too. It seems to automatically remove a book from the wish list once you’ve checked it out, and you can’t put it back in the wishlist while it’s checked out. This can be an inconvenience if you have the book checked out and it expires - if you don’t remember enough about the title or author, it can be difficult to find the book to check out again. There are some other things I would want to tweak after that. But it’s awesome that I can browse books, check out the books, and read or listen to them, all on my phone!
Convenient but glitchy
I do love this app because I read so fast and I’m traveling a lot so I can’t always make it to the library. So it’s very helpful for people who read fast and read a lot dave trips to the library. (I do prefer reading from an actual book but it’s so nice to have it on my phone for reasons like 1)reading when you have unexpected downtown 2)not having to carry large amounts of books on trips). It’s also nice because if I finish a book too fast and I won’t be able to go to the library for a few days or a week I can just hop on WiFi and return it and get more books! HOWEVER, this app has MAJOR glitches. Sometimes whole pages just don’t exist so you miss parts of the story. In one book a whole chapter was just nonexistent. I had to figure out what happened through context clues and from reading a chapter summary online. So that stinks. Also I will have perfect WiFi AND will have downloaded the book and it still gives me the spinny wheel. In addition, the search mode on this app is so so bad. They will have the book but you have to type it in exactly how they want it for it to pop up. You can type in the author and sometimes nothing pops up, or sometimes you ha to type in the author for the book to pop up and the title doesn’t work. So if you want to find new books just use the internet, and then search on the app for the book you want. If this app had no glitches, this would be my favorite app of all time!
Description
Axis 360 gives library and school users the ability to search, browse and discover ebooks and/or digital audiobooks available for lending through their public library or school with ease. Designed to provide a mobile experience for users of the Axis 360 digital media library, the Axis 360 app lets you sync with your local library or school’s digital collection, allowing you to check out materials in a user interface optimized for your device. The free app allows you to browse, check out and read ebooks or listen to audiobooks in a single app.
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