The Spectator Magazine for Android

You can subscribe for a year, but if you don’t renew, you lose all access to the issues that you purchased. You’re only buying access, not the actual magazines.

This is the third format of Spectator download I have used. The first one was the best. Each of the two “upgrades” has been worse than its predecessor. The latest is a disaster. This latest version makes it very hard to download successfully, and many times when I have been on a train or a plane I have found that the magazine did not download. When I read the magazine it does not bookmark the last page I read and so whenever I resume reading it takes a full minute to get back to where I was. Please either fix this app or scrap it.

The latest update is in many ways a visual improvement, but the magazine is now difficult to read. If you use the menu to skip ahead to an article, and then try to resume reading the magazine from the start, scrolling to the next article takes you back to the article you reached from the menu, rather than just the next page. So scrolling from page 1 to 2 actually takes you to page 40, if you’d been reading page 40 beforehand. Can this please be addressed in the next update?

I have been a subscriber for over 10 years, first through Kindle then through the Mobile app. I love the Spectator and have recommended to many. However, a recent update to the app has made it impossible to read downloaded issues offline. After about 20 minutes of offline reading, the app boots me out of the downloaded magazine and requires a login. As my favorite time to read The Spectator is on flights, this is a real problem. Either I am forced to purchase expensive internet service on the flight (if available) or I have to read some other less enjoyable publication that does allow offline reading. PLEASE FIX THIS!

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