The Palace Project for Android

Leaving a review as it looks like the CS team is pretty responsive. I really like the interface to search for books, which lets you drill down by genre and subgenre but also allows you to View All. Much better than Libby in the ease of use there. I wish there was a “save for later” type functionality - maybe someday. :) Where things fall apart for me is the audiobook playback. Biggest issue is that it heats up my phone and absolutely chews through my battery - doing nothing but listening (through Bluetooth headphones, connected to my home wifi) for the ~90 minutes drained my battery (Android 11, 75% performance per Settings) from ~75% to ~30%. Another quibble is that when moving from one track to the next, it seems to play the new track for 15-90 seconds and then jump back to the beginning. That’s a little weird and kind of annoying, but not a dealbreaker for me like the battery issue.

long tale with many. twists and turns.Interesting

My library moved to this app and it's very dissapointing. You cannot sample an audiobook to hear the narration before borrowing or reserving. You cannot review the catalogue while listening to a book. And the most disappointing, you can only change the speed in 0.25 increments. If 1.0 is too slow or fast, changing to 1.25 will be too fast and 0.75 will be too slow. You might as well have no options. Please fix this at least.

Doesn’t open to my book- have to go to the catalog & then to my books. Have had to download multiple times so my place is lost. Can’t get app on Kindle Fire.

While there is a long list of libraries, this doesn’t support my library system