Zinio for Libraries

Great app when it works... But somehow they keep breaking the login system.. Once they stop doing this ot will be a 5 star app. Works for now. Oh, and lets us us SD to save publications to.. No idea why apps have moved away from this.. Number 1 reason I buy Android.

I have a very small capacity phone, but a very large SD Card. It would be awesome if the magazine's could be saved to the SD Card instead. Currently I can carry only very free magazine's for offline reading. Also, I can't for the life of me figure out when the pages scroll downwards and when they flip like pages.

Clunky interface overall, but my biggest issue is that it doesn't give you the option to scroll horizontally. You are forced to scroll vertically which means that when a magazine has an article with a two page photo (like most do), you can't see it seamlessly. You have to look at the front half of a car and then scroll down to see the other half. You can't see the whole car at once.

Only 4 stars despite loving it. That is because it works perfectly on my Samsung devices but is unusable on my Chuwi Hi12 - it keeps crashing. Cache cleared. App reinstalled. Still no good. The device is perfect for reading magazines being 12" and it works without crashing if viewing through Chrome browser but that is not ideal. Please fix.

This app was great when I first registered. Was able to down load and read magazines offline. I'm now unable to do this. I've a number of magazine on my tab that I like to go back and read but I am no longer able to access them via the app. I now have to use other means to access them. Please fix

I like the app and it works well for me but be aware that when you delete a magazine it keeps a thumbnail image of that magazine on your device that enables you to restore the magazine if you wish. The problem is it keeps it forever, their tech support tells me you cant delete it - ever. Yes if you get through a lot of magazines you build ups masses of these all taking up possibly valuable space. If you delete them they come back, if you uninstall and re-install they all come back. Great isn't it!

Can't login through the app - it opens a browser and demands a login through another website and then redirects again. Everything is a pain to do on this app from loginning in to browsing to trying to trying to read. Continuous scrolling? WTF?

Would be great if Zinio could do user/library card profiles that you could switch quickly. I share a tablet with my husband and right now you have to log out and login. Or have his magazines downloaded to my profile.

Zinio for libraries used to work OK on my tablet. Now I am unable to read magazines on my tablet nor am I able to download them to the tablet. My use of Zinio is to read magazines when I am not connected to the internet. I have uninstalled Zinio from my tablet and have recommended to my library that they find another vendor whose application allows me to download magazines to my tablet for off-line reading, and is reasonably easy to use. Using Zinio on my phone seems to allow downloads etc. However, I do not like reading a magazine on that small screen, and Zinio will be using a significantly large part of my limited device storage because Zinio does not allow storage on an SD card. My recommendation to my library stands as above.

I stopped using this app because the developers fail to see the most obvious problem. All the magazines are being saved on device's internal storage instead of SD. From inside the Zinio app I removed all the magazines and still it was taking up huge space. I had to go to Settings > Apps from main menu and clear out all the data from this app. Then today I was deep cleaning the device and I found out that all the magazines that I thought deleted were still sitting in the device in forms of PDF, HTML, and JPEG files -- all in nearly 200 MB, found only through Avast Clean-up. This really stinks. I hope the company fires all the programmers involved in this project.

Impossible to log in or create a new account or "remind" the password. Nothing works anymore, and no answer from support... Very annoying.

It doesn't work consistently, every so often it signs me out for some reason, like today-- and today it also just stalls after I enter my username to sign in again. SO FRUSTRATING PLEASE FIX.

Pretty good when it works, but buggy. As others have noted, no save to SD card. Prone to freezing and crashing. Sometimes difficult to save mags, or they get hung up while downloading.

If I could give this app 0 stars I would. Never works, can't check out magazines from library, no other app available. I honestly don't believe zinio even has a customer service, or that they even care.

App is still the worst I have installed..constant hangs..page scroll in library is slow..takes multiple attempts to simply download a mag. Appalling app. Intel atom based tablet Android 5.1

Has potential but is let down by being quirky, often misbehaving & no save to SDCARD. Tip: clear all data and start again to sort things out as a last resort.

Won't even let me register with a valid library card. Support is slow and unhelpful. Better off visiting the library in person!

Zinio was great when I first downloaded it. Lots of magazines to choose from, easy to read full screen on my Chromebook (Asus Flip). Every once in a while, though, I would open in tablet mode and there would be no way to resize it to full screen -- the little "box" to make it full size just disappears from the tool bar for some reason. At first I could just restart the app and the problem would be gone... but for the last two weeks it seems to be permanently stuck in this tiny rectangle in the middle of my screen ... I can scroll through it, but it basically renders all magazines unreadable, thereby making this app completely useless.

Works well when it works. But frequently hangs when trying to load a magazine. Reseting my device sometimes resolves this.

wont let you download the mags, very buggy also and keeps crashing. a great idea but this one 'doesn't work'

This app is a total joke. The only reason I got it was to download magazines from the library, obviously. But straightforward tasks like downloading or deleting magazines appears like the equivalent of sending humans to Mars. Please, Libraries SA, find someone else to manage this task, because Zinio are a total FAIL.

As others have said the login functionality is buggy. When the app works it's great and intuitive. Android supports SD so why not have the option to save their to save precious local storage space.

I like the app, but can't figure out how to delete the old magazines. I don't have any way to select or delete the magazines. Please help me!

The features of the regular Zinio app are better for managing library collections and issues and it works just as easily. Plus you can access the issues you do but and the free monthly article samples are an additional bonus. Don't bother with this version.

Runs slow, crashes, very convoluted processes for maintaining magazines, can't save to SD card. It's a pity my library doesn't support an alternative app.

Works sufficiently well enough to merit 4 stars. Will only show those magazines that are carried by your library. Login with your library account and enjoy reading. Text only reading mode is a big bonus. However I would love to see external memory card saving option and horizontal scrolling in future updates.

I love being able to read magazines on my device for free. No time limits. I wish there as an invert colour option as I like to read in bed when I can't sleep and the white background isnt optimal.

On a phone, there is an option to display a plain text version of articles. On a tablet with the exact same publications, that option doesn't exist.

Log in dreadful - keep having to redo a new password. Slow interface and if you decide to store on your device for reading offline, then deleting it later is slow and unreliable leaving pages behind. Tried this app several months ago and gave up on it. Returned to it and updated app but still as bad.

Does not save files so everytime you want to read an article you have to download it again.

This worked for about a month, then I was ask to login. Will not accept my login or accept my card # or let me login in any way.

But still hogs too much storage, needs to use sd card

Works OK for reading but checkout of more mags cannot complete and must be done by another method.

Night mode would be great

This app is laggy compared to the Zinio app.

Please can we have the option to save to SD card.

Can't get past the login screen. I keep getting the, webpage not available message...

Can't even log in

Updates with no explanations.

CANT LOGIN!!?!