London Review of Books 앱 리뷰

The best periodical

The LRB is my favorite reading material, being more diverse in both its subjects and writers than any other. It has managed to print important work in spite of controversies that intimidated better known journals. I’ve saved more of its stories, both for the content and the quality of the writing, and found that when other publications aged into annoyances, the LRB continues to hold my attention and to satisfy my insatiable curiosity about the only world I inhabit.

Fabulous writing.

Thanks for the good work.

BRING BACK WORD COUNT!

Bring back word count!

Incomplete application

There is no digital version of the print edition. It is unfortunate, reading experience is incomplete.

Thank you for fixing text sizing issues.

Great publication, good app.

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Stellar content, and an online presence that’s attractive and easy to navigate.

Greta publication, ok app

I love the LRB but I really wish this app supported dark mode. It’s so jarring to see a white page when everything else on my phone is dark.

Content is great. App leaves something to be desired.

The content is top notch. However, the app has some frustrating flaws: * dark mode not available for evening reading * options to adjust text size and spacing are quite limited * no cross-device syncing * no way to switch to paging instead of infinite scroll * like the News app, it’s easy to accidentally swipe to the next story when you meant to scroll down reading the current one. Unlike the News app, it won’t remember your place if that happens and you swipe back. Overall the Kindle used to offer a much better experience reading this magazine, but that is no longer an option.

Dynamic Type

I very much enjoy reading the LRB, but it would be more pleasurable if the App supported Dynamic Type, As an aging adult, I can only peer at the micro-print for short periods before fatiguing.

Mostly good, but I'd like to save articles outside the app occasionally

In the twenty odd years I've been a subscriber, I've saved articles maybe a dozen times. On the website its still quite possible to save to pdf, but on ipad I haven't figured out how to do so. Annoying. Otherwise a good reading experience for an electronic device.

Does not support active reading like the web site does

Why would the LRB deliver an otherwise solid mobile app, that doesn’t support annotations! Hopefully that is only temporary, because I enjoy reading much more when I can markup my copy with highlights and margin notes. Luckily, I can do so by generating a PDF of an article off the LRB’s web site, usually via the Safari web browser’s Markup command. Many PDF readers allow me to handwrite margin notes on a tablet, and highlight passages, names and expressions that spark my interest. I derive so much more pleasure and benefit from an article when I engage it actively like this. While it’s great that the LRB’s web version offers the capability, please support me in a future version of the app. Generating a good PDF of the article inside the app would be perfect, as I can then archive my annotations in my favorite note-taking app.

I really wanted this app, but...

I'm a new subscriber to LRB. Love the content, but the small font in the print edition is not very readable to my macular-degenerated eyes unless I have unusually good light. I was so happy to see that there is now an app I can run on my iPad Pro M2. I downloaded the issue I'm currently reading, January 5. Nice reading on my big bright screen! But just for the first few articles - then on the "Magpies" piece, the app crashes immediately. Whenever I go back in, even if I clear memory, "Magpies" comes up and the app crashes again. I am unable to navigate away from it. So it's back to the eyestrain print until this is fixed.

Made purposefully hard to just search and read?

Why not like rest of internet?

I can’t wait for my next issue

The LRB is visionary, writing about authors who deserve a second look. You published a memorable piece on Chester Himes last year and now I see his books have been reissued in paperback and available in the new Brooklyn Heights library. Have you done anything on Alison Lurie? Her novels are hysterically funny and deserve an LRB appraisal.

No bookmark

There should a bookmark function that allows you to jump to specific text in an article when you return to it.

Great app but text sizing is a blunt instrument

This app functions really well and is very easy to use, and it is a wonderful addition particularly during the pandemic when paper copies arrive late or sometimes not at all. But the choice of font size needs some work. There are only three or four settings and the difference — on an iPad mini — between the smallest size and the next largest is comically large. The smallest size means about 39 lines of an average 10 words each on the screen. He next size up is 25 lines of an average of about 6-7 words per line. There really should be something in between.

London Review

I’m an American who lives in NYC. And, although I read the New Yorker; I’d truly find the London Review is essential reading.

Poorly designed and functional

A quite bad app. Hard to manage. Cumbersome.

great content, lovely layout

it's very pleasant, if one has to read the LRB electronically, to read it in such a simple format, with a nice font. thank you very much.

A good app

Simple layout easy to navigate

I love the LRB

The app is so easy to use. Nothing to distract from phenomenal reading.

Crashes every five seconds.

Alas.

Review of the app not the contents

This is a fairly decent app overall, so 4 stars, except that the print on the iPad version is too small & cannot be enlarged, so downgraded to 3 stars.

No bookmark

There’s no button to pause where you’re reading. If you don’t finish the article you’re reading in one go, you have to reopen the app and scroll endlessly through the article until you find where you left off.

London Review of Books

Why read anything else?

Double chocolate gelato

Lrb is to attention what double chocolate gelato is to the sweet tooth. 🙏

The LRB app is beautifully designed

And the writing is scholarly and accessible. Very inexpensive to subscribe . Along with NYT and NYRB it’s a graphically excellent way to read geniuses who can write well.

A gift

I call the LRB Santa’s gift bag.

I dont “like” to read on my phone

Or on a computer, really. I do plenty of it but w/o the patience i’ve learned w/ print. W/ patience comes focus, which goes on its merry way not tithering. A great app for reading when you’ve left your hard copy behind, which arrives promptly, probably before you knew it. The week or two behind i’m usually at w/ print (often longer or alrogether lost depending on fluctuations in my schedule) does not exist here. I’m as current as a reader in the UK. I haven’t tried printing from here, but maybe that’s something i would do w longer stories ive since recycled or that are from the archive. There is a “download” option for each issue. On my iphone, I’m sure I could. You are not going to get anything more here than what you came for. A rare thing indeed in this hypertechno, online world we’re in. A blessed thing indeed. Thanks,

Great

just great

A voice of reason...

...in an insane world. Reading the LRB at this moment in history, reminds me of the lines by Seamus Heaney: “It's twenty to four On one of the last afternoons Of reasonable light...”

Great app, but could be miles better if they’d add there A/V section...

I’d give it five stars if it could just work out a way for us subscribers to access the podcast/close readings from WITHIN the app. Otherwise, I love it!

🌟🌟🌟

Lovely app for a lovely paper.

Where English is still a language

These people can write.

Words about words

Words about words so enchanting, so engaging, so enlightening as to be simply beyond words!

Good, but could be great

Good app for great site. How they could make the app great is by adding a search section and to make the available issues not cut off before 2010. Not to be greedy, but would love the app to make ALL back issues available.

Excellent

Works as it is meant to work; never had any problems with it.

Always something

There is always something wonderful to read and learn in each issue of the LRB. Much more entertaining and interesting than the New York Review of Books.

You have a brain. Use it.

The UK stuff can get a little obscure if you’ve never set foot in this sceptered isle but the takes on politics and history are refreshingly astringent if sometimes on the wordy side

Powerful and sublime

Wonderful sculptured essays and reviews with intellectual sharpness in an age of encroaching blandness and dullness in global journalism.

LRB mobile

So I’m on the way to a dinner party and don’t know what I’ll talk about. I whip out my phone, find the LRB app and in a few minutes I’m all pumped up and ready to impress everyone!

Great app

Easy to use and crash free.

Basic app, could easily be improved

The LRB app is nice for offline reading. A few features I wish it included: * remember reading progress when closing app * share links should be for the article itself, not the issue’s table of contents * web content should be accessible in-app * general archive, issue, and article searches

Good app

Enjoy the app, especially for offline reading. My only complaint is that the app does not save your spot when reading an article after exiting the app for a period of time.

Clear

Easy to use, a clear & concise digital version of a great periodical.

Perfect

Lovely little app. Downloading fast and easy.

An intellectual feast

I've been reading LRB for years. I never miss an issue and often read the whole issue.

Simple app for not so simple reads

Though I miss the columns of the broadsheet, the app is a decent sub when needed. And it's all the easier to look up 'farrago.'

Reasons to read

Possibly the best reason to own a smart phone -LRB in your pocket ,everywhere

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