Reviews for BOOK WALKER - Manga & Novels

They appear to have started playing favorites with genres/demographics in their sales. For example, in the past 2 months: -BL enjoyers got a 30% off sale -TL/Smut enjoyers got 30% off and 25% coupon -Ecchi enjoyers only got 20%/25% points back (no sale) If you like ecchi then your only hope is that it will […]

UPDATE: Customer service fixed my issue. It was unexpectedly very quick. From this experience, I highly recommend reaching out to them if you are having issues. Keep getting “Unexpected error. Please try again later.” when trying to listen to my most recently purchased audio book Edit: Email sent

The e-books read pretty well, and the selection for Japanese books is great. But accessing the Japanese store is a hassle. I have to search for gibberish in Japanese first (so something like はやほやるそとふんゆ) so it can say it couldn’t find anything in the English store and suggest trying the Japanese store, then search for […]

Review prompted by recent app redesign. I like the improved speed, but there is much more white space now. I used to be able to fit 15 or more books on my screen when viewing my list (library, as it is now called). I really liked that, since I have smaller phone. Now i can […]

This is the most strict DRM I have ever had the displeasure of dealing with. Because I am running a custom ROM, the app refuses to start. Same with any sort of root on your device. Thus, I cannot access the books I *legally purchased* on my phone because I am assumed to be a […]

I was very happy with the app until it suddenly decided to tell me it would be tracking me across all other apps for marketing reasons with no clear way to reject permissions. This is super creepy. I’ll be deleting the app soon, and you can bet I’ll stop using the website, too, since this […]

This app drains a ton of battery even when it is not actively being used. Everything takes forever to load unless you turn off any data connection on your device then it all loads instantly like it should. Why does my virtual bookshelf have a limit on how many books it can hold? It’s just […]

It’s great for manga, and when Amazon pulled some light novels I had purchased from their library I was able to rebuy them here. My sole complaint is that there’s no option for endless scrolling when reading books. I don’t like flipping pages when reading on my phone, and it wouldn’t hurt anything to have […]

The pricing and service is great amd the reader works great. HOWEVER the app is absolutely abysmal, the lag is obnoxious, it reloads for 5 seconds or so every time you tab back into the app. Worst of all, the audiobook player is painfully bad, there is no controls outside of the app so if […]

I can read books, offline, and there seems to be basic integration with Google Translate. Other than this the app is slow and restricts anything else you might want to do with the book (want to copy a few kanji to look up the meaning? too bad!) and more importantly unlike Amazon there’s absolutely no […]

Update:I somehow worked out some of the download issues through a a hard reinstall. The app remains a shadow of it former self due to the change of interface. It is nicer to be able to put as many books as you want in one shelf, but the display is blander. A lot of promotional […]

I was looking for an alternative to Amazon since they’ve been removing a lot of LNs and manga. Book Walker seems like the safest option as I wouldn’t be surprised if Google and Apple follow Amazon’s lead soon, but the UI for the app is total trash. It’s nearly impossible to navigate it without confusion, […]

I read manga for two reasons. Entertainment and education. For the second, I like to be able to read in original Japanese. There is no filter option for languages on bookwalker. Even switching my account language to Japanese (at least, I assume that’s what that was, there was no context to that option) only changed […]

I like the idea of the app & its super cool that it has a bunch of Mangas & light novels. My complaint is that when you use the mobile version, reading certain mangas & novels are hard because the panels don’t load quick enough. I’m still gonna be using the app but maybe not […]

I like the app, more like I like the service. It quite struggling with the app at first but after few updates it become better. Not only that, I can read manga/ln in legal way and reread whenever I want. There are ton of free manga on internet but I want to contribute something to […]

Good app, but seems to be missing fairly popular titles like My Dress-Up Darling, for example. I went through the process of e-books requests some time ago for Global/EN but no dice on it appearing in the store yet, even though it’s accessible on the JP side. That and others show a clear catalogue difference […]

Plenty of sales & points are a godsend to get free volumes/chapters. The prices are equivalent or better than Amazon. If there’s a problem with a title & you let them know about it, the problem is promptly fixed in a few days with a note thanking you for telling them about it. Release dates […]

4 star for their store and image quality. They have a fairly large selection and the image quality is much nicer than say Amazon 0 star for DRM ebooks. Their ereader is not the best, which is fine. Let us use other ereaders then. I don’t mind switching apps when I’m shopping. But having all […]

PRELIMINARY REVIEW: 3-stars At this time, I have found a couple of issues with the app. And it’s not limited to Android either, as the issue also affects iOS version. That issue is how it handles numbered bullet lists. On Android, the numbers are cut off at the edge. On iOS, they are completely cut […]

Even more issues. Can’t download/read properly on some devices anymore due to “isn’t responding” issues since a previous update if I have more than maybe 30 downloaded. And yes, I had already tried to update to latest version (at the time). That is what broke things. Haven’t used this to read in months now with […]