Sora, by OverDrive Education

Name: Sora, by OverDrive Education
Rating: 3.38246 (1106 reviews)

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Sora, by OverDrive Education

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User Reviews for Sora, by OverDrive Education

Pros and Cons

Pros: Feels authentic Books read from electronics No need to go to the library Audio books Cons: Hold placements: why do you need hold placements on an electronic book app? The book isn’t exactly an object you picked up from the library. It feels like this app could have accomplished so much more is this wasn’t a feature. Electronic books should not have a checkout line. Interface: the interface is glitchy at worst, an annoyance at best. Sampling: when I sample a book I have to return to where I found the book instead of just being able to borrow it right then and there In all, I feel like this app should be an alternative if someone has already borrowed the book you were after in the library, it shouldn’t function as if it were a library itself, at least not with the extreme downsides of the library

Cam Cam 32, Nov 29, 2021

Great app! Just one pretty major thing...

I really like sora! So much, in fact, I have it both on my computer at school, and my phone at home. When I went to school today I found I couldn’t check out the audiobook I wanted, so I tried to log out the in again, but it still didn’t work. Then I tried to check out a regular ebook. And this worked, but I didn’t want the ebook, I wanted an audiobook because ebooks can make my eyes hurt. I came home, hoping to check out a book here, then read it at school. I tried and it wouldn’t even let me download a regular ebook. At this point I’m really annoyed so I log out then in again, it STILL doesn’t work. I DELETE THE APP, RE- DOWNLOAD IT, LOG IN, SHUT DOWN MY PHONE, COMPLETELY REBOOT, AND IT STILL DOESNT WORK. I rely on sora for reading and this has me REALLY mad. Thank you, A loyal/concerned user

Honest889👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻, Jan 08, 2019

Use it for school but..........

Okay Sora is good. I like it. It’s not their fault that they got four stars. It’s that recently I stumbled across a app called Libby and it was so good, even better than Sora. Plus, I only got Sora cause my school used it, but I realized that I can use my school library on Libby too. I am not a Libby advertiser, just a real customer, and plan on keeping Sora, but overdrive and Libby can add two libraries and allow me to navigate between my school and public libraries. This makes me use Sora less and less but overall the app is good and deserves 4 stars but if you want an exceptional five star app just get Libby and if you want two libraries get overdrive. Sora is good, maybe even great, but not as good as Libby or overdrive. I encourage you get those apps instead.

IamnotMia, Dec 25, 2020

Great App!

This app is really great and I’ve been using it for a while now. However, I have been experiencing a bit of trouble recently. Everything was fine, and I had just gone into the app, when I realized that all the books I had borrowed were gone. I figured it might just be a glitch, so I went in and out again, but it still wasn’t working. So I tried to type the name of a book I wanted to read, and it started to load for a while, but then it said “could not load this list. Please try another”. I’ve tried all kinds of different books, and nothing works. I even deleted and reinstalled the app, but nothing is working. I was wondering if there was a way to fix this, or if I should just wait for a while. Please reply back soon if you can fix it. Thank you!

JustSaying🦊, Apr 30, 2021

Perfect! But could have a few better features

I’ll start out by saying I love this app. As a huge reader I found it really useful to have my entire school library on my phone. One thing is if I was waiting for a hold, I wouldn’t find out my hold was ready until I opened the app to read something else. I think it would be really useful to have notifications that would send out to alert you when a hold was ready or when it was almost time to take a book back. Other than that, it’s a perfect app for students like me who love reading on their phones. I highly recommend it to anyone who doesn’t like reading as much because their are audiobooks as well as ebooks. Anyway please look into the notifications thing and thank you for your time!

KC Coder, Jun 06, 2021

Minor issues

Everyday when I got home I would use Sora, right? But when I finished a book (Ex: Warrior Cats) I would want the sequel, which they didn’t have, so I would go to the library and try and get it, but I have a pretty small library in my town, so it would be on hold, lost, or they didn’t have it. Overall I think it’s great, but there are some more minor issues.1. The hold system. I don’t understand why you would need that on a digital app? When I wanted to read a book, and it was on hold, I hat to wait 2-4 weeks just for one person (unless they returned it). 2. How they recommended books. I am in 6th grade, but I logged in with clever which has test scores, etc. so it recommended 3-4th grade books, so I had to think of books I wanted and search for them at the search bar.

Midutop, Jul 24, 2022

The concept is nice but...

I only recently got this app and I’m hoping to be proven wrong but right off the bat I see some issues. For one, even though they have access to your clever account, which I believe has your grade and lexile score, I was recommended books for 3rd graders despite being in 7th grade. And even the books that were “on level” had lexile less than a thousand and-age counts not reaching 200. My lexile score for the record was 1413.This is the thing I have the most trouble with on kids websites. They seem to assume all of us are below average and group 5th graders in with kindergarteners in reading level. The next thing is the “fantasy” section. I have read many a book in this genre written in the last decade. So why are all the books on the websites not? I know old books can be good, but by now the writing pales in comparison to modern books that actually engage the reader. I can name hundreds of modern fantasy books yet they don’t have a single decent one.I’m not sure how this works, and if it’s a problem with the rights and copyright and stuff that’s fine, but please make your system see what grade and lexile score your on. No dignified 7th grader is going to be caught dead reading “Spongebob: Surfs Up!”

ModerateSketch, Jun 26, 2020

Fun app, but needs a little work.

Sora is a nice app but however, it has issues. My child was obsessed with reading on Sora when her school introduced it to her, so she read a lot everyday. However, when she opened Sora a few days later, when she wanted to borrow a book, it said, ‘You checked out and returned too many titles in a short time please try again later.’ I would get that if she did NOT return the titles, but that makes no sense because they were basically stopping my daughter from reading! And another thing Sora could be working on, my daughter can only check out one book at a time and hold one book at a time, why aren’t they letting her check out and hold more? So Sora’s a good app when you actually can read on there, otherwise, it could use some work.

My Unique Macname, Dec 19, 2020

Fine App, but needs work

Sora is an excellent app for students to read books they pick and that their teachers assign. But Sora’s interface can be glitchy. On the achievements page for students where they can see reading achievements they earned you cannot scroll. If I open the app after it’s restarted and immediately go to the achievements page I can scroll down and up but if I open it again after going to a different page or I open the app before it’s restarted then it is frozen with scrolling no scroll up no scroll down. And it’s extremely annoying that you need to restart the app to scroll in your achievements. Also I started reading at 11AM and finished at 11:30AM but it gave me the achievement “Early Bird” for reading before 7AM?! I couldn’t find any setting to change the time so it now has no idea of the time. Please fix these glitches.

Rishaan Reader #2, Oct 19, 2020

I love this app! One issue though.

Hello reader, I love this app, if you are looking for an app with a large selection of e-books and audio books then this is the place for you! 📚 I was so excited when my English teacher recommended this app to me! I love how you can also get fun little achievements for reading different genres, renewing a book, returning a book early, etc. The selection is awesome 👏 👏 👏! My only issue with this app is the checkout limit, three books total (both your e-books and audio books combined not three each). Could the developers possibly bring it up to four, or maybe five? Thanks so much for reading! Bye!

WorkStrike58, Dec 30, 2020

Description

Borrow ebooks and audiobooks from your school's library with Sora. Setup is simple - just find your school and sign in. Then download or stream your assignments and favorite books to your device.

Sora includes: • A ground-breaking built-in ebook reader • A beautiful audiobook player • Easy access to assigned titles • A running tally of time spent reading and numbers of books read With Sora you can: • Borrow a book and start reading with a single tap • Create and export notes and highlights • Define words - and review a list of all the words that you've looked up • Earn achievements for reading, and for completing certain tasks in Sora • Enjoy reading ebooks and audiobooks!