worst newspaper app

This is completely unnavigable. A really, really awful newspaper app.

1. Freezes frequently so I cant open articles or move to the next article.

2. While I can change the text size so I can actually read it, when I go to another article, it defaults back to the small text size, so I have to adjust the size of each and every article I read.

3. Scrolling through articles (as opposed to pages) doesnt show every page. For example, you cant see the comics this way.

4. Navigation between sections is hard because the menu is not labelled in a way that you know what is in each section.

5. Back to comics: almost impossible to find. There is no index. All you can do is scroll through pages until you happen upon them. Only the app freezes pages all the time so you cant actually swipe through.

6. The thumbnails on the bottom appear when you open the edition. When you close them--so that you can actually see the page--there appears to be no way to get them back except by going back to the homescreen and starting over again.

I am sure there are many, many other problems here. I dont know why smaller town papers have much better e-readers. The Union Leader, for example, which is a terrible paper, has a great e-reader.

Very, very, very disappointed and we will probably not renew our subscription because of this unreadable app.

harpyhb about The Boston Globe ePaper