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Great content, poor app

yiu have to login with a google account. never had an app like that before

Charges for everything. Not worth it.

Help spreading logic and reasoning everywhere... keep up the hard and necessary work.

I already pay for a regular, paperback subscription but for the convenience of an electronic version I need to subscribe again?! Mr. Shermer, please review this obvious problem, I expect goofy oversights like this from lazy, stupid publications, not from Skeptic Magazine.

Terrible. For such a great and modern magazine it's odd they're using such a terrible platform. Will subscribe again when using PDF quality format, like Newsstand.

But, the resolution is too low. When you zoom in to a column, which you need to do to read comfortably, the text becomes blurry.

The app likes to without reason deletes a downloaded copy and re-downloads it all over again, therefore wasting bandwidth.

I love the debunking of so many myths

I love the debunking of so many myths

Very bad application.

Skeptic is the best magazine out there. A good dose of common sense in an increasingly bizarre world. I love having it on my Nexus 7 where I can read it wherever and whenever I want.

Scumbags and bears, or a dash of insanity. A pinch of success, or the good of humanity

Only thing that would enhance this would be integration into Google Play New stand instead of having to have this standalone app. Otherwise, kudos to skepticism =]

Content is always... Implementation wise it would be better if it worked like kindle... In any case highly recommended.

Really one of my better subs. I have been reading it from the news stand for years but now I'm saving trees and my carbon footprint is much smaller. Plus those niggling thoughts that made for restless night's sleep are going away. Or so I'm lead to believe...

The app works very well. Not quite as good as hard copy but very close and more portable.

Tight editing, content is also of consistent ly high standard and well written

Excellent reading, well worth it!

The App is okay, but, its the magazine that makes this special.

Unreadable. Just a full screen slideshow of photos.

Issues with zoom. All my paid for back-issues were no longer available when I connected a Pocketmags account. BTW, disregard complaints that back issues are not free with a current subscription. I have never seen a magazine subscription that gives free access to back issues and this is a non-profit publisher. Update. Fixed access issue by uninstalling then reinstalling the app and re-downloading everything. Annoying...

I downloaded the app. I signed up for the free trial annual subscription. It had no trouble performing that function, signed me up effortlessly. It's been two hours now and I can't access the magazine. I have conversed through email with the company but so far all of their efforts are not getting me a viewable version of my order on my apps. So, someone on staff manually entered my subscription, then I had to deleted the app and reinstall. Now the issues I ordered say they are downloaded but I can't view all of the pages. On some of the pages there is just a big grey bar that covers about 80% of the page that is supposed to be viewable. I hope I don't have trouble cancelling this because it is far too much trouble otherwise. I am really disappointed in this app.

Paid 3 times, never got more then the trial issue.

I discovered by going to the skeptic website that this is the official app for the magazine. Overall it has great functionality and I did not have any of the purchasing problems that other reviewers have had. 1 reviewer said that you have to pinch in and out, and this is true, this app does not have an easy read mode like the other magazines on Google Play. But for me personally I am so used to reading PDF documents on my iPhone that reading this on my Nexus 7 was great.

The app works ok but the duplicitous marketing behind it is disgraceful. They suck you in, this team of sceptics and dishonest merchantmen to make you think that the sub is only annual payment for all the back issues but in fact it only gives you the current issue. You have to pay for any of the other issues. That is ok...I don't mind that but I would have liked to have been informed up front instead of paying my sixteen bucks for one issue. I only subscribed because I thought it was a bargain and that is precisely what they want you to think. Tricksters!!!...and this from a Sceptics magazine....is there some irony here? I urge all of you people on FB and sundry other sites to broadcast this message so we can help put a stop to such disgraceful marketing practices. Now the equally duplicitous Google wants us to join its losing Google + to write a review here. Is there no end to this nonsense where they want to capture every detail of any person they can get in their clutches? My one star means that I am far, far from being a happy customer!!!

I like how I always have a skeptic magazine in my pocket so I always have something interesting to read. It is a much better way of filling time than twitter or facebook. But it could be so much better: 1- Either increase the resolution of the scan or have the text in text form so it can scale to any size(My phone has a full hd screen and all the text is sharp but skeptic magazine is blurry) 2- Tap to zoom and horizontal scrolling should go the way of the dodo(please look at apps like currents and the verge) 3- If you implement text think about a dark theme(white text on black background) 4- Like another reviewer said: why not give acces to all editions?(I can only read one at a time and what does it matter which one I read?) 5- The articles themselves are as always beyond awesome.

Android has a very capable text-to-speach converter that. apps may hook into. This app needs to tap into that magic that's already on my phone and start reading to me while I'm driving. An example of an app where this is well implemented is Pocket (formerly Read-it-later). Also, a screenshot reader is not enough. It needs a text mode so text can be resized & reflowed.

Help spreading logic and reasoning everywhere... keep up the hard and necessary work.

On a 7" screen the text is too small to read without zooming in. However, you can't turn the page without zooming back out. Reading an article becomes a tedious exercise of zoom in, scroll around the page, zoom back out and turn the page. This routine must be repeated on EVERY page.

Come on man! I must pay for online content even though I have a current subscription to the magazine. Come on Michael fix this we need this app.

Thanks to the negative reviews, I was prepared to be disappointed, particularly as I'd seen problems with the PlayBook version. But it works as advertised, fully functional including zoom, and speedy page turns.

The app apparently confuses buying a subscription with buying a single issue. So now I have a subscription payed and registered, but access to only a single non-trial issue. Please fix this, then I'll back an much happier.(Android 4.0.4/Galaxy Note N7000).

Yes, the app is free but you must obtain a paid subscription or buy individual issues. I purchased a subscription but only received one issue. It says I need to pay for the newer issues.

Does not allow me to preview or read anything. Just wants me to subscribe or buy an issue. Most likely is either a fraud app or been hacked by creationist.

Wqnt read preview issue but download is corrupt? Happy to change review if problem is fixed.

How in the hell are people supposed to make a decision to purchase your app based on a free preview that is illegible on a phone? Zoom disabled on the preview? What the hell are you supposed to preview then, the layout? You can keep it.