Reviews for Kobo | eBooks & Audiobooks

I like this app for reading ebooks. But the app is terrible for audiobooks. My big issue is how often the audiobooks lose my place. I'll hit pause and the book will jump forward a few chapters. I'll try to go back 10 seconds; the book will go to a random chapter. If you touch anywhere on the screen, the chapter menu will pop up randomly and skip around. I've uninstalled and updated the app, but it's still a common problem. Also, you can't listen at increased speed through Android Auto.

recent app update is bad. it reset all my settings and i can't find a way to make some of them how they were before (like the pagination setting -- suddenly I can't set it as having a fun page turning animation). the contrast is different and I can't change it, and it's losing my place in my books. very bad. edit: gave up and uninstalled. not worth the time and trouble.

Kobo, as a service, is a very solid ebook option. However, with the recent update, they've completely changed the way the reader works in this app. Not only did it totally screw up the settings I was comfortable with (and I can't get them back) but it also removed things like the option to have a page turn animation. It's also significantly laggier than it was in the past. I am so sick of companies "fixing" what ain't broke...

The app constantly closes on me when I'm reading, and recently, when I get near the end of the chapter, unless my font setting is on the smallest one, it will cut off the last few pages of the chapter and start a new one. I have to backtrack one page, change the font to the smallest size, and then I can change the page and have it finish the chapter. It's annoying! Also, it doesn't sync the furthest page read on my devices until about 5 minutes into my reading. I have to manually sync the pages.

Please let us fine-tune the playback speed. The playback speed adjustment is currently extreme. Speeding up to 1.05 to 1.10 or down to 0.95 or 0.9 would be great. I'd never isten to anything at +3.0 speed... The search results aren't that easy to navigate, a minor gripe. Membership read/listen library is awesome! I hope that doesn't change.

Overall a good app for ebooks, although it can be annoyingly slow to open sometimes. In the most recent update, pages at the end of some of my book's chapters are missing, with the chapter ending in the middle of a sentence. I'll keep using Kobo because it's a decent alternative to Kindle, but I really hope the missing pages issue is fixed soon!

unfortunately, there is a flaw in the audiobook app. it doesn't keep your place in the book. It also doesn't allow for bookmarking it, so when it jumps around, you can't find where you last were. It's happened constantly to me and my husband. I contacted the company and told them the issue and that I'd need a refund for both credits since I couldn't save my place in the books and they refused. Said they would only give me credits for new audio books, which is useless to me. bad company policy.

I went with a Kobe e-reader for features for the price. It's still great, but this app is awful. It's stuck at loading the library and no books show up. I tried everything customer support said, multiple times. No luck. It's worked in times past and is okay then. But these sync issues happen often. When I check out or buy a new book it often doesn't appear. (I've tried repairing my account, repeatedly. It doesn't work).

I have reached out, spoken to a person, they don't seem to understand the words I say or type, and keep asking me things over and over., like they only read from a script and don't understand English. Very disappointed. having so many issues. Can't even download an audiobook to listen to it, so annoying. Can't download anything. Seems to be a consistent waste of money. MMaygo to another app. Not that great.

Works fine with regular ebooks, but I just got an eaudiobook and it keeps skipping chapters when I close and open the app sometimes. I don't know why, it's very frustrating having to remember what chapter I left off on when I close the app. I like that it works with overdrive ebooks from the library. I hope the eaudiobook problems are fixed soon!