I bought the pdf of a textbook and was forced to download it thru this app. Big waste of $$$. These companies do a disservice to students and education when we are forced to use these terrible apps. But I suppose it doesn’t matter to them as long as the corporations keep making millions in profits off the backs of hard-working students. I was forced to use this app for my textbook but if you have a choice, choose anything else!!! You’ll save yourself a lot of frustration and disappointment

If you have an Adobe account, you now have to create a BookBytes account to use for log-in before you can send books to this app; you also must click that you have an Adobe account and want your books migrated (even if you don’t have other books). Otherwise it kicks back an error message that you already have an account. Once I did that, I could finally open my book here, but I can’t figure out how to share the file with my kindle. My whole purpose for using this was to send a book to my child’s kindle e-ink reader since they can’t install other apps. I was hoping this would be more simple than the other clunky methods of doing this, but at least they work.

This app is very flawed. It randomly swipes over 3 pages. On my iPhone 16, the words end up behind my front facing camera and I have to move the page around to read the words obscured due to this, which results in the app freezing for 10 seconds. When you swipe to the next page, the words are blurry and take about 7-12 seconds to load. It randomly doesn’t save my place and I have to try to remember where I was when I reopen the app. I like that it has a dark mode and I can change the font size.

Fortunately I did not read the blistering reviews of this app before I downloaded it, or I wouldn't have tried it out. I bought an eBook with DRM and the seller recommended using ADE on the laptop to download the eBook and Bluefire as the reader on the iPad. When I did that, I didn't have Table of Contents (TOC) or Search functionality for the ebook on my iPad, so I went looking for another app and came across ADE. I did have a glitch when I shared the eBook with the ADE app through iTunes. I could see the eBook on my iPad, but I couldn't open it. I verified that my iPad was authorized with my Adobe ID in ADE, but, just in case, I deauthorized and reauthorized and that did the trick. I now have Search functionality, though still no TOC. You can make your own TOC, however, by adding bookmarks at the start of each chapter. Bookmarks and Highlighting work. Highlighting is sometimes tricky, trying to get the right text included using one's fingers on the screen of the device. My main suggestions for improvement would be (1) allow editing of the titles of bookmarks and highlighted segments and (2) allow syncing of bookmarks and highlights between versions of an eBook residing on the laptop and the mobile device (iPad/iPhone).

There are problems that me and all of my classmates mentioned while we were using this app. The main problem is that it lags and stops a lot if you are using it offline. When you flip through pages too much, it starts to freeze for a while before you can flip the pages again. So when we were looking for a certain page in our ebook, the app lagged every 10-15 seconds. This happens less frequently with internet connection, but it can still happen. Especially if the app has not loaded certain parts of the book yet.Another problem is that there isn't a simpler way to find a certain page. Even though the app has a scroller that helps you jump through the pages, it doesn't indicate which page you're going to flip to. If there's a way you can do this in the future, that would be good as well.TL;DR I don't recommend this app for anyone who wants to use this for ebooks. Whether for educational or recreational purposes. It's better if you find an app that can do so much better until Adobe fixes these problems. It's not worth it.

I just purchased an eBook and it required me to download this app to read it. I spent $40 on it. I want to share my extreme dissatisfaction with the quality of the eBook format. It was ridiculously challenging to download and I spent nearly 40 minutes trying to figure out how to download it. I finally figured out what the issue was by looking at the comments on the IOS reviews page from several others that had similar issues. The trouble was that you cannot use safari to download it so I had to get an all new internet browser to download it. Then once it was finally downloaded I was incredibly disappointed in the quality of the e-reader itself. The content in the book is great. I know because I have the paperback version. But I was looking for an electronic version that I could take on the road with me and easily access when away from home. When you read the book in the eBook format it looks awful. Words are cut off, you can't even finish reading complete sentences because the formatting is all wonky. This app is absolutely is ridiculous. The quality is so poor it is completely unreadable.

I had to download this to read ebook from my local library and it’s one of the worse apps I have ever used in my life. I have an iPhone XS Max and this app is not maximized for this phone or any phone models with the black bar at the top, because the first time of the page is right where the black bar is which means you can’t read at least 3-4 words every page! The app also loves to freeze out or just glitch out randomly, especially when you switch out of it and come back in or change screen orientation. I also like continuous scrolling for reading instead of having to swipe because it’s a hassle, not to mention if you are reading in a dark/dim space it has to load every page (which takes a bit) and the loading screen is WHITE while I’m reading in dark mode! I honestly can’t believe this is a published app! I wish I could use the books app right on my iPhone for the library materials but sadly I can’t. This is really a pity and I hope adobe fixes this disaster soon so people can actually use it to read or study.

I have been reading books on my phone for more than a decade, and I’ve use lots of different apps to do it over time. This feels like the worst of a first generation app: The majority of the screen space is blank around a tiny narrow column of text that looks ridiculous justified, because it truly creates distracting volumes of white space down the middle of the page. Better apps designed for actual readers go closer to the margin of the screen, allow you to stop justifying the text when doing so avoids that distracting white space that literally makes it harder to read, or to keep the justification when it is appropriate for the text.Adobe’s name is synonymous with graphic design, programs like Photoshop are now so powerful and flexible that that very flexibility is intimidating to many new users. It seems clear that they forgot that flexibility when creating this terrible implementation of an e-book reader. It forces screens to look like weirdly distorted printed and pages and ignores years of experience that make better readers actually a pleasure to use.

Have used this ap previously to read borrowed ebooks from library. Have installed on several previous machines and never had a problem. Dowloaded this current version 4.0.3 both from the ap store and from Adobe’s website directly. Ap downloaded fine and I was able to authorized the ap with no problem. Transferred a book in, no problem. But everytime I try to open the ap crashes. Everytime. Tried deleting and re-installing same problem. Tried more than one book download, just in case one file was corrupted. Same crash. I have the older version 3.0 on another machine, and it still works fine. Tried downloading version 3.0 on my new desktop (found it on Adobe’s website) and had authorization problems. For the most part I read via the Overdrive ap on my iPad or iPhone but when summer comes and I read outside, I need to be able to transfer books to my Nook. This is where ADE is needed. At least I have the old version working somewhere. Not really going to fool around with it much further since it seems like lots of people are having the same problem.

I just wanted to read an e-book from my local library and had to download this app to read the book. I saw all the one star reviews and got a little freaked out but I still gave it a try because I really wanted to read this book. There’s no real tutorial on how it works but I figured it out on my own after 10 minutes. Got the book into the app and there’s no way to actually read it? I read the title page, the acknowledgement page, and then the remaining pages after that were blank? Like blank pages or blank pages with like black smears? I guess the pages don’t display properly on the screen once the book is in the app. I mean there were literally no words on the remaining pages after the acknowledgment page. Don’t even waste your time. Even if you do everything right, once you actually download and open the book, you won’t be able to load the contents of the book. Would give 0 stars if I could but hey at least maybe I can save someone time with my review.