London Review of Books

London Review of Books

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About this app

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

Ratings and reviews

Obviously the LRB magazine itself is excellent and well worth the subscription. This app could do with some work, though. Firstly, you have only two options for browsing this massive archive - edition covers and the search function. Being able to organise by some broad categories and by contributor would be useful, as would a separate tab for downloaded editions. Secondly, there's a glitch where leaving the app loses your place in an article on return.

I am sorry, but this app is dreadful. A magazine of this magnitude has to do better. I can understand the attempt to simulate the feeling of reading an actual magazine. But, why? It's not. If you have the technological capacity at hand to produce something beyond a paper magazine, don't settle for a copy. Provide the users with an experience that the analogue magazine can't provide. For example, search capabilities or the option to save the progress of reading an article. It's lazy, do better.

Very lazy. No problems with the content, but the app doesn't add any kind of convenience when compared to the website. Doesn't have a search function, doesn't remember your place in an article, and you have to download an issue to read an article in it rather than just clicking on an article. Deleting and sticking with the website. LRB deserves a better effort.

What’s new

Bug fixes and performance improvements