London Review of Books

London Review of Books

By LRB Limited

  • Category: News
  • Release Date: 2014-09-04
  • Current Version: 4.0
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 25.68 MB
  • Developer: LRB Limited
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
Score: 4.86093
4.86093
From 2,718 Ratings

Description

The London Review of Books is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, the LRB is home to the most exciting writing on literature, history, politics, philosophy, art, poetry and more. Already a subscriber? Simply install the app and sign in with your LRB website login details. App features - Read the LRB anywhere, even offline - Get the latest issue on Wednesday, before it hits the newsstand - Save articles for later reference - Resize text for easy reading - Dark mode option - Access ten years of the LRB dating back to 2014 Subscribing via the app - The app is free to download and comes with a free preview issue - Subscribers to the LRB magazine can access the app with their LRB website login and do not require a separate app subscription - Subscriptions made via the app, however, do not include access to the LRB website and online archive - In the app, you can purchase individual issues of the magazine or an annual subscription - Subscriptions are charged to your Apple account and managed in App Store account settings - All subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the subscription period - If your subscription lapses, you will still be able to read the issues published while you were an active subscriber

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Reviews

  • Incomplete application

    2
    By Peter 100100
    There is no digital version of the print edition. It is unfortunate, reading experience is incomplete.
  • Thank you for fixing text sizing issues.

    5
    By buscabulla
    Great publication, good app.
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    5
    By yorksexpat
    Stellar content, and an online presence that’s attractive and easy to navigate.
  • Greta publication, ok app

    4
    By the_doob
    I love the LRB but I really wish this app supported dark mode. It’s so jarring to see a white page when everything else on my phone is dark.
  • Content is great. App leaves something to be desired.

    3
    By R. Uncle Pennybags
    The content is top notch. However, the app has some frustrating flaws: * dark mode not available for evening reading * options to adjust text size and spacing are quite limited * no cross-device syncing * no way to switch to paging instead of infinite scroll * like the News app, it’s easy to accidentally swipe to the next story when you meant to scroll down reading the current one. Unlike the News app, it won’t remember your place if that happens and you swipe back. Overall the Kindle used to offer a much better experience reading this magazine, but that is no longer an option.
  • Dynamic Type

    3
    By crue13
    I very much enjoy reading the LRB, but it would be more pleasurable if the App supported Dynamic Type, As an aging adult, I can only peer at the micro-print for short periods before fatiguing.
  • Mostly good, but I'd like to save articles outside the app occasionally

    3
    By J. Bullfrog
    In the twenty odd years I've been a subscriber, I've saved articles maybe a dozen times. On the website its still quite possible to save to pdf, but on ipad I haven't figured out how to do so. Annoying. Otherwise a good reading experience for an electronic device.
  • Does not support active reading like the web site does

    5
    By Ka Ramses
    Why would the LRB deliver an otherwise solid mobile app, that doesn’t support annotations! Hopefully that is only temporary, because I enjoy reading much more when I can markup my copy with highlights and margin notes. Luckily, I can do so by generating a PDF of an article off the LRB’s web site, usually via the Safari web browser’s Markup command. Many PDF readers allow me to handwrite margin notes on a tablet, and highlight passages, names and expressions that spark my interest. I derive so much more pleasure and benefit from an article when I engage it actively like this. While it’s great that the LRB’s web version offers the capability, please support me in a future version of the app. Generating a good PDF of the article inside the app would be perfect, as I can then archive my annotations in my favorite note-taking app.
  • I really wanted this app, but...

    1
    By Sedona iT
    I'm a new subscriber to LRB. Love the content, but the small font in the print edition is not very readable to my macular-degenerated eyes unless I have unusually good light. I was so happy to see that there is now an app I can run on my iPad Pro M2. I downloaded the issue I'm currently reading, January 5. Nice reading on my big bright screen! But just for the first few articles - then on the "Magpies" piece, the app crashes immediately. Whenever I go back in, even if I clear memory, "Magpies" comes up and the app crashes again. I am unable to navigate away from it. So it's back to the eyestrain print until this is fixed.
  • Made purposefully hard to just search and read?

    1
    By James Moy
    Why not like rest of internet?

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