1000 Books Before Kindergarten

- September 13, 2015

Everyone

Education

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Description

The concept is simple, the rewards are priceless. Read a book (any book) to your newborn, infant, and/or toddler. The goal is to have read 1,000 books (yes you can repeat books) before your precious one starts kindergarten. Does it sound hard? Not really if you think about it. If you read just 1 book a night, you will have read about 365 books in a year. That is 730 books in two years and 1,095 books in three years. If you consider that most children start kindergarten at around 5 years of age, you have more time than you think (so get started).

The 1000 Books Before Kindergarten app lets you keep track of your reading activity quickly and easily.

- Scan books into your library
- Keep track of reading activity for multiple readers
- Track your progress to 1000 books!

Reviews

2.4

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Becky Hubbard

Good app, but... I really like this app to keep track of the books I read to my littlest ones, and I'm glad that it can keep track of multiple children, but the scanning feature is way too sensitive for us! The reality is that I usually have said children climbing on me while I try to search for a book, and have major issues being perfectly still. (Not necessarily anyone's fault, but it would be perfect if it were easier to scan books).

It's worth the download just so I don't have to keep track of our list on paper, but it isn't very user-friendly. The process for adding books to the library/reading list could definitely be streamlined. Whats the point of the library when you have to search for most titles anyway? Why not just save directly to your reading list and skip the library entirely?

Rachel Ann

Needs a lot of work Not very user friendly at all. The amount of steps needed to get a single book in the library is a little ridiculous. Many books can't be found in their library, so you have to search, but that never works so you have to enter it manually, which means you have to re-enter everything you've typed. I tap the search bar, tap scan, tap search then immediately tap again so I can enter a book manually. Also if you don't take a picture when you enter the book then you can't add one later. I think I'll pass.

Erika Couture

Too Labor Intensive A good idea, but way too many steps to add a book, and many books were not found. If you read the same book to 2 children, your work is doubled. Way too much time for a busy parent.

Sara Sherrin

I was very hopeful for this app. I live the concept, hut the execution missed the mark. Too many steps involved for what should be simple and straightforward. My app has now crashed and we lost all our progress! The library is gone, and I get an error saying "No data send to server. Try again." I am very disappointed.

Kimberly Miller

Reader and Library Disappeared This app is usually very handy but this morning when I went to add the book my daughter and I read my reader list and library had disappeared. Please fix! I don't want to start over!

User reviews

Becky Hubbard July 3, 2016

March 20, 2017

Rachel Ann July 12, 2016

Erika Couture November 12, 2016

Sara Sherrin April 4, 2017

Kimberly Miller February 26, 2016

Cesyesco September 23, 2016

hate is a powerful word. one star for me is highly disliked. i think it messed up on me because i went back to add a book and one profile was gone, the one with most books. im going on the safe side okd school paper and pencil. it was nice while it lasted though

Jennifer Grubaugh September 3, 2016

Could be great Adding the book to our library before adding it to the read last is redundant. I would like to just add it straight to the list and have it added to the library automatically. Adding a book to each child individually is annoying. It would be much more user friendly to be able to just check which kids read the book and add them all at one. The search feature is a joke. Half the time the books can't be found and when they can be found they often contain no info and can't be added to your list.

Susan P October 30, 2016

Great concept, horrible app The app doesn't have most childrens books, and it often doesn't remember those I scanned. Also, it appears the app hasn't been updated since September 2015. I will not continue using the app since it takes too much time.

Kelly Deltoro-White July 17, 2016

Not something I would recommend I work at a library that's rolling out the 1000 Books Before Kindergarten campaign this fall, so I thought I would try out the app before we went live. I am disappointed. The book scanning feature is ok, but having to go back in through multiple screens to check off finished books one at a time is a drag. It would be better if there was the option to have the books registered as finished when they were scanned. At the very least, it would be nice to be able to check off multiples. Not recommended.

Andrea H January 19, 2016

Most of the books that I have read to my son can be found, but there are some that are not in the database. It's frustrating because they are new books. Otherwise, I enjoy adding books to my son's list. Being able to add multiple books at once would be a big plus.

Jeanyee Jan Squires August 6, 2016

Crashes all the time Crashes on me all the time. Sometimes when I scan the barcode on the book. The picture of the book doesn't match the title or it is not listed at all. Constantly imputing it manually. If it wasn't for my library participating in the program. I would never use it. Let alone suggest it to someone to someone to use. Frustrated!!

Bethany Noviello August 29, 2017

Way too time consuming. Would be helpful to have a scan feature so you can scan the ISBN barcode to add a book when its been read. Ill be deleting this app. It would be easier to just write them down.

Sarah Reilly November 20, 2015

I really want to love this app The interface is a bit tedious when we've read a stack of books (the ability to select multiple books at once would be wonderful). But my biggest complaint is that every time I try to start it, it gives me a dialog saying "unfortunately, 1000 books before kindergarten has stopped" and I have option of clicking "report" or "ok". Five times. Every time. Once I click though those five error dialogs, I can start the app again and it will work - until the next time. Please fix this!

Justin G January 1, 2017

Great for keeping track, but has its issues. A lot of books say not found when I scan the bar code. Half the ones that I try adding from the list say no details, and I have to add them manually.

Karen Kc June 5, 2017

It freezes up all the time! It's also a little tedious to add books and Mark as read. Could be a great app, but not super user friendly and doesn't work most of The time.

Patricia Duran November 17, 2015

Suddenly Stopped Fix the glitch please! My baby has a lot of incentive riding on our account. She's read 221 books. And for some reason, everything on our account is lost and i can't sign in. I don't know if our library will honor my word if this doesn't get restored.

Kevin Gallagher November 19, 2016

Very poorly designed This app could be very useful for tracking books but it is so poorly designed that it makes tracking books a frustration. For example if I see a book in the library that we've read why can I not add it to my read list from there.

Jamie Elliott April 3, 2017

I love this idea but the app is horrible. I couldn't even sign up to see if I liked it. So frustrating and judging by other comments it has many problems.

Jamie Maynard February 2, 2016

Organization of info input is not that great. I keep getting app error messages. We're now too far committed to stop using. Please fix

Courtney Buzzell December 31, 2016

Inconvenient to scan into a library and then click back to add it as read. The preset library is very small and missing most classics. It also lets you enter the same book multiple times so the get double and triple counted by mistake.

Jennie Armstrong-Bettini January 31, 2016

Great program, novice app Needs: fewer clicks to add books, indicator toggle on library list "read/not read", allow edits & corrections on manually entered books, also include all fields of info on manual input form

Tara Freeman March 30, 2017

Not user friendly. Hardly works and crashes often. Needs a lot of work.

Lindsie Page-Billeter June 24, 2017

I desperately want to love this, but so many books are missing and the app crashes constantly. I also can sometimes find the right books, but when I click them, I'm told there's no data on my selection... doesn't make sense. I want to encourage reading, but I'm tempted to scrap this whole program bc it's been such a pain.

Megan Justman March 24, 2017

Better than paper....but frequently locks up. I would love to see a click box, so we can scroll through and add multiple books at one time.

Chris Dudley February 4, 2017

Very buggy, redundant, and unreliable. As with books, old school paper is better than high tech.

Tara Casey June 7, 2016

Dysfunctional App This app is very poorly built. It never logs off...so you go back in to add book and it is constant error.

June 9, 2016

Could be soo good Want to love it, but falls short with user unfriendly workings between screens. Please fix.

Jeannie Rojas April 3, 2017

Freezes all the time and have to add book then confirm you read it which is redundant. If I add a book its because I read it. It lost all the data I input somehow! And we have read over 1000! So PO right about now!

Rose Flowers April 4, 2017

It worked somewhat okay up until yesterday. Now I can't log in to record last night's book. Hoping it's just a temporary issue and will be fixed soon. We were at over 500 books.

Marlin Castillo November 17, 2015

Terrible I wanted to like this app, it was working at first then started to crash and unable to find books either by scanning or entering the title.

Diana Benavides August 4, 2016

I've been using the app for about 6 months with over 400 books read to my 2 year old toddlers. I love the concept but there is a lot of room for improvement. Suggestions: 1) it would be so much nicer if we could check the books that where read (already in the library history) with an "add all checked books" button to make it quicker without having to go back and forward for each book each time. 2) Somehow add the same book to siblings without having to go back and forward. 3) Incentives - Possibly a clapping sound every 50 books read, a trophy for every 100, etc. With that said I am just happy to know there is something we can use to encourage us as parents to read to our children. I have suggested to many parents to use the app.

Dean Lehman July 7, 2016

It is OK. Clunky to add books that are not found with Barcode. When removing a book from the library needs warning that the book is also going to be removed from read list.

Jennifer Howard Burns October 13, 2015

Saved my data I had to replace my phone, but the ap saved my library and reading list! Could be much more user friendly, but it does the job.

Katy Bauml August 6, 2017

I like that this tracks how many books your kids have read and that it will log the same title multiplw times. However, there are hardly any books in the library. Since you can scan books in this wouldn't be a huge deal, but since I checked with another account, books I add to the library don't add to the library of books for all users. It seems kind of silly that basically no books are in the library if adding a book doesn't transfer to the app as a whole and allow others to see the book. Also, what is the point of the library if you have to add all the books to it? I scan a book and add it to the library and then go back and add it to the readers lists. Why not just scan and add it to the list right away?

Courtney Wagner October 12, 2015

Did not work Installed app and spent hour adding books for my son went to try one it didn't work tried several more of the books and none of those worked! I am very upset I wasted time on this