Sora, by OverDrive Education App Reviews

Dismissive “support”. Great when it works however it has been crashing all summer. After taking recommended steps for problems on the sora website I contacted sora and they were dismissive and no help. “Ask your teacher or tech support,” was the response?!?!

Sora. More like Dora like who needs books L app rate it 1 star

I Loved it, but then love started dying down. I loved readin off of sora because i can read a book before actually getting the book, but then all of a sudden i tried borrowing a book but the thing said for me to sign in again but this time my district im in isnt on the list for some reason. Im hoping you could help this out and so i can start reading my books i want to read.

Amazing APP. Some glitches though

Bad. Glitchy bad

Good at First but has some issues. I got this on my phone because I like reading and I couldn’t always go to my schools library, and at first it was great. I personally don’t mind the 2 book limit and the loan time isn’t an issue because I read really fast, however now when I place a loan for a book and I’m the only one in line it says unknown wait time. EVERY SINGLE TIME. I don’t know if that was intended but I think I’ve had a hold on a book for about 2 months! If there is something to be done about this that would be great!

No longer works with NYCDOE. No longer works with the DOE to allow staff and students to borrow books, which would have been great for the summer. First could not borrow books. Now cannot even login.

Sora why. I was listening to the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows audiobook close to the due date, and it just turned off and I found out it checked itself in. why? Sora you should fix this.

The best. Has all books and you do not have to get up to go to the library

WHY'!!!!!!!!. I use sofa on my computer all the time but on the iPad my passwords are NOT WORKING!!!!!! Do not get this app unless you know what you’re passwords are. The only reason I gave it stars is because I like it on my computer but still PASSWORDS!!!!!!!!!

Pretty good. Ok, I’m a kid who uses this app in school and there is one big problem that needs to be fixed. I wanted to check out diary of a wimpy kid and I realized that it wasn’t in the app, but then my friend checked out the very next day, but my app was up to date with the latest version. PLEASE FIX THIS PROBLEM.

Can’t use on other devices. Great app but a hassle to log in on any other device than your school device. Also it’s online why do you have to wait for a book?

Sora. I love Sora!!! It’s compatible and awesome. Especially with my NYT card. I like it. I wish that I could add more books though

Doesn’t work. Long story short, THIS APP IS BUGGY and shouldn’t be used. This app is just horrible. Every single time I check out a book and begin to read, it never saves the spot I was in. I constantly spend so much of my reading time just trying to find my place. Also a couple times the book I’m reading will just close automatically and then bam I have to find my page yet again. Would not recommend.

🫢. I think the idea is pretty good . I would love though if there were more copies of each book for example every month my reading teacher picks two books that most of the grade has to read. A lot of people borrow the books on Sora but you usually have to wait along time for them sometimes even after the month is over .but yeah that’s all bye

Can’t log in after most recent update. Can’t log in after most recent software update. It’s middle of summer break; can’t check out new ebooks, audiobooks or magazines. Can’t renew books. No one to check with at school bc: ITS SUMMER BREAK. Very disappointed. Hope my students are having more luck.

Stupid. The app is okay except for the fact that you have to WAIT for a book if someone is reading it even though it’s an online app. Idk I just think it’s stupid. :|

Sora: an app for books that’s ACTUALLY amazing. ppl are saying it’s bad when it’s not??? it’s actually SO good. i’ve given up on reading online after my favorite sites were taken down, stopped being funded, etc. of course, i don’t mean that i’ve stopped reading AT ALL, but rather on my phone. to be honest, i actually dislike reading online. but the formatting of this app is easy to use, good-looking, and overall enjoyable to use! it’s easy to get the hang of it. there are lots of different kinds of books here, from popular ones to even manga! and Sora has a lot of manga! the only problem i have with Sora is the fact that you can only “borrow” books for 20 days…but whatever! i still love this app. i CANNOT thank my best friend enough for telling me about this app, and sharing her account with me!!! ilysm <3

Why. This app is terrible. I apologize for all the students forced to get it.

Sad book worm. I’m very unsatisfied because I use to love this app but ever since it’s new update it has kicked me out of Sora! All I see is the guy in the cover while all the books I was reading were getting back to the library and that’s it I can’t take it I’m gonna delete this app in 4 days if don’t get better!😡

This is one of my favorite apps. I’ve used it for the audiobooks but it’s much better than reading and get to experience it by listening not just reading I love the app and I hope I can inspire you to try it

Love it but not waiting. I am a student who loves the endless catalog of books on Sora but most of my favorite series have a long wait time. So I think what would make Sora better is that three copies of a book are the same price as one for the popular series so that all the books have a more even wait time instead of diary of a wimpy kid having a 2 month wait when a less popular book has only a 2 week wait.

It’s good but bc of a bug I can’t use my account. It logged me into my sisters account and I can’t get back to my own

I love Sora butttt. I love Sora don’t get me wrong. Buttt I hate having to wait 3 weeks for a book that got returned because I didn’t finish it within the wait time.

!!. This is the only way I can read a book and an interesting one I just wish they had more options for my age

Sora is amazing. I love sora and have used it for years. I don’t read books, I listen to audiobooks. I have finished hundreds and have had only a few problems. First, I think that you should be able to speed up past 3x speed because I would love to listen at 4 or even 5 times speed. (Yes, I know I sound insane) Also some books just cut out at parts so maybe look into that. Overall, great app.

I just need some help. I can’t see the New York City Department of education. My teacher said if I don’t see it then click my school isn’t listed, but I still can’t find it.

Great app but😳 😳. I was just going to say I love the idea

Very Good app. I love this app especially since it has most of the books I want to read and most of the time the books are available

The problem. So the problem is that I can’t find my school but if I type my school name there’s none of the above.

Could be better. This app had a very good potential but there is a limit to how many people can take out a book at a time. This makes no sense because it is online!

Good. I’m on this app like 24-7 I love except literally one minute ago it deleted my account I think, so me 😡

What is being collected?. Downloaded app but can't continue until I agree to Sora collecting information about me. No option to opt out, no details I could find letting me know what information they are collecting, storing, sharing, selling. Disappointed.

Sort of. Love it but the sign up takes a long time (at least for me)

Great Book App!. Sora is a great app for all ages to read any genre. My school library doesn’t have all the books I like, but that’s not Sora’s fault. I’m honestly a Wattpad reader but I like the books you can find on Sora. One thing though, I know it’s a library but why a waitlist? You can’t just individually copy?

Great app must dowload. I love this app and I use it a lot. Some people complain on their reviews that they have to wait 6 weeks for a book but that’s because the books you check out on this app is shared with hundreds of people. There is a huge variety of books to choose from and genres like romance, fantasy, manga, fiction, and so much more. Not only are there normal books there are also audio books. My whole class loves it and it’s great odor trips or when you can’t go to the library very often. YOU HAVE TO DOWNLOAD THIS AMAZING APP 🤩📖😁

Life changing. Sora is a life changer and so much better than Epic and Reading IQ There are so many books and badges to earn and reading.I love it

it was good until. ok so i got this app like 4 years ago and now it won’t work when i click it just loads forever and idk what to do but other then that there are good books on sora

Good, but the holds?. Now, i love this app but, i have a problem that CAN be fixed. HOLDS! holds are annoying and they don’t serve any purpose! This is an E BOOK. not a physical copy of a book that you have to have a wait on or buy! I think its silly because technically once you have the book in digital form, shouldn’t you have unlimited copies? Unless i’m missing something and i’m just being dumb. Please take the no holds into consideration!

I love this app I love this app. Hi am I love this app I hope you know that you slay for making your boy or a girl I love it and you stop all day I never stop using it I love it I love it I love it I love it I love it I love it I love it I love it you get them and I just really like it you know I am I don’t think you’ve ever gotten review like this anyway love it

YOU NEED TO GET IT. My hole class loves it and we will beg to read on it. For the people that have issues with it sry but I LOVE it 😍😍🤩🤩 I have read like 55 books with no problems and it’s probably just a internet issue or something and don’t be sry about making us get it. Also whoever made this app I LOVE IT don’t feel bad about the glitch in there system. PS I am in 4th grade so I LOVE It to right a report on it so don’t worry mcs Elementary school has NO bad things about Sora.

Dumb 1 star reviews. WHY ARE PEOPLE GIVING A 1 STAR TO THIS APP AND THEY SAY, “I hate reading.” Bro, do you know how this impacts the company and the overall rating. Also I recommend connecting to your local library instead of a school library since it has more books,

Hate love Libby. Not loading

Omg. i looove this app and use it every day for audiobooks. my school library bought 100s of books for sora and it’s super helpful how you can assign books. the only thing is i wish it was supported with Siri so you can tell Siri to play a book on sora.

:/. Good app but I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THE 36 STORY TREEHOUSE TO READ BUT I CAN’T GET THE BOOK!!

DONWLOAD! 🤩🤩🤩🤩. Amazing simply amazing

It’s good. It’s great I use it for school and battle of the books but I don’t get the wait list when the books are online I recommend if you don’t want to pay for a book app and your school provides it

broken for NYC DOE. please please fix this sora your app is genuienly easy to use and i love reading on it, but the young adult romance i want to read is unavailable for me. i’m in high school and i’m in the allowed age to read these books 😭😭 it’s really annoying please fix it

ARGH READ THIS 😡😡. So if your like me and you LOVEEEEEEE READING read this. Also developers READ THIS! I downloaded Sora cause I use it in school and I absolutely loved it and thought to try it at home. So I got it on my iPad. But the problems and results on it were just too 😡STUPID😡! I have had loved it but then it started to decrease. Is it just me or does it work better on a computer?! Below is what I HATE AND recommend! 1. So since I love to read I always go to Sora cause there is more options. And I am ALWAYS reading. Most of the books I read are series! AND THIS STUPUD THING IS STOPPING ME TO READ!! If your wondering what it is, it’s that thing “you borrowed too many books in a short time please try AGAIN”. Can you please please take this away? 2. The thing that stops us from borrowing. OUR LOAN LIMIT. It makes sense for you to pu it at 2 but that is not the best number! Can you increase it to like 6? 3. The one thing that is ALWAYS there, LAG. My Internet is really fine! Then why does Sora lag so much?! This bug better go away. I already have too much complaints on Sora. 4. GLiTcH. Sora glitches way too much! It takes me out of my books ALOT. And whenever I scroll up it goes DOWN 😡. I know you, developers, can’t take this away but CAN YOU TRY 😡!? There are other complaints that I have but I don’t want to fill this page up. It seems ever so called “update” SHOWS ME BAD LUCK. I AM DELETING SORA PERMANENTLY IF THIS DOES NOT GO AWAY. Wow that sure was an angry rant. Thank you for reading this and developers please please please please please fix this thank you! Your reader, Lovelovelovestars

So good but one thing 🤗…... So I would say this app is one of the best reading apps for students as a student myself students that are reading this you should use it I am in something for school for reading and this app goes great with it and my friend also loves it she is right beside me so I am going to let her type a little Hi so what I want to type about it is it has a little problem but I hope the creators will reply to this and say they fixed it. Ok back to me anyways the Problem is that whenever it says hold for two weeks I go back to the app in two weeks and I still don’t get the book. Is there a reason this is happening? Any way still highly recommend this app byeeeee💌🖍️😄😀😝✌️✊!!!

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Nice. It is good but there should be cricket books🏏

Not for me!. I really dont like how long some of the waits are for a book, I had to wait five weeks for a book that said available! Even when the five weeks were up I still couldn’t borrow it. And I really don’t like how low quality the audiobooks sound! I have another app I read on and the audio books on it, the people speaking speak so clear and read it with so much more expression! The wait for and online book on this app it honestly ridiculous, it’s an online book, unlike a library having limited amounts of a copy of a book, an online reading app should allow heaps of people have the book at once. It just would be so much more easy!

IT DONT WORK!😡😡😡. Sora isn’t a good reading app because you can’t read the whole book that we want to read and it will take FOREVER to get to read the next part of the book. It needs a lot of improvement.

❤️❤️❤️❤️. I thought Sora was really good but the only thing about it was that it takes a lot of time to load the pages

Not the best. All of my fav books aren’t here, and the books actually takes 9 hours to download. Plus, Sora has a lot of grammar mistakes in the books. In Warrior Cats, they even got a name wrong! This is stupid, and I should delete this app

Awful. I have to wait 4 weeks to get a book I need for my school research and I DO NOT HAVE THAT KIND OF TIME!

Place a hold issue. I like overdrive reading is good (to me) But what is annoying is the fact when someone has book you really like, it just says place hold and it can take up to 1️⃣6️⃣ weeks to receive just sora/overdrive take out this feature please

Good but one annoying thing. It’s good but if I put a book on hold and wait for the boom to be back when it’s been a week and I go to read it it’s not there I waited for nothing PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THISSS.

Place hold. This app is a great app to read and all but placing hold on a popular book I have to wait 8 weeks for one book to have for a week please fix this

Kinda good. My daughter accidentally changed the langue and it wouldn’t allow her to change it back

Best app for reading. I love this app but It keeps kicking me out

Needs a lot of improvement. Sora isn’t a great reading app. Here’s why. Firstly, the place hold thing is absolutely appalling. I placed a hold for a book and the wait time was 3 weeks. Then it changed to 5 weeks! I was so mad about this. Then I once placed a hold for a book and it took 12 weeks! I’m not wasting 12 weeks for a book I need for an assignment. Then the assignment will be due by then. Next, Sora doesn’t update fast. All the books are old and boring. We need more graphic novels. There is a lot of new ones that aren’t in Sora yet. All the boring books are always available. Fix this immediately! WORST APP EVER

holds take long. since warrior cats is a popular series, i always have to place a hold. not that you guys can fix it.

really good a first but... It was good for a few months then it asked me to sign in and then saying it was incorrect

Please finish series!. It has mainly been a good app, but if you could please finish series that you start that would be great. I have been searching on where to read Ao haru ride because both of my reading apps don’t have anymore than 4 books… If you could please finish the series that would be great! Thank you!😊

Great but one issue. I am a massive reader but lately when I have borrowed an ebook the chapter number comes up but there are no words until either a picture or the next chapter. My app is fully updated but still not working.

So cool. When I signed up for this I have found so many books I like even my number 1 bad guys but there’s not all the books in the world it’s so better than a library

Amazing app but some problems. The app crashes a lot when I try to load it it happened 4 times for a big Nate book and has happened many times before

why?. why when I was JUST about to borrow a book sora just made it frozen for SIX days can you please fix this

Great app just one issue. This app is amazing! I love the variety of books on here. One thing I would like is to add a function where you can remove books that you've marked done. Please do this. Thank you! :)

It’s good.... but. When I load in it takes for ever to load, but the worst thing is that it glitches so much. When ever I try to read a book in Sora, it glitches and takes a long time to start reading book your book. I wish there was an update where it doesn’t glitch.

Fantastic!. Best app ever! You can read any book!

Bad. Bad books doesent have good books like where the wild things are or atleast stickman

GREAT 👍🏻. I think this is a great reading app for kids. Love it!!

I can’t find my school. This is really annoying because every time I type my school, it says two other random schools.

Why do you have to wait for the audiobooks and ebooks?. Since they are not real books why do you have to wait in a queue for a few weeks unless it’s available?

Excellent Reading App. Perfect app!I like the way it allows you to add it to categories!What about stories in different languages?

Completely 👍. According to my experience within the app, it was definitely not the greatest for example it mostly just had technical issues. But besides that I really do like the idea of the kind of library sort of app and it has a wide selection of books to pick from so I think it’s great but just needs to fix up technical issues! 👍

The best. It is much easier than overdrive and just search and boop the book you wanted is there

Just Wow. I thought this app would be good but it crashes every minute and takes forever to load

Real annoying bug. i quite like this app it’s really great for long car rides and late night reading The only thing I had a problem with was a bug that would sometimes occur: When I would try to tap onto the search section it would instead go to the home section meaning I couldn’t search for any books Even when I restarted the app and my phone it still remained the same Other than that the app is pretty good Thanks

Ok...🤨😐. I think this app is ok. It’s not the best and always takes ages to load and won’t let me read unless connected to wifi and some books won’t download even when I am connected to wifi and say that I cannot download them unless I am connected to wifi. So yeah besides that. This is an ok app

Not bad but bit long loading. It takes a bit long to load Plz fix it

Sora. Sora is very good and great for children to learn how a library works and how children can learn to read!

It glitches a lot. I was told at school that you have to do it with WiFi but than when I dis it with wifi it blacks out

Amazing but. Amazing but I wanted the book the storey puppy and it not their could you please add some more books from David Williams Liz Pichon and holly Webb

Its ok...... Its a good app but there should be a wider range of books so theres more varieties to chose from,,

Its alright. Sora is honestly a good app but I hate having to wait 8 freaking weeks for a book that I want to read! I have seen a book that came out like to three months ago, and its still not on sora! Anyways back to the hold thing, how come you can let us read a sample, but not read the actual book and make us wait more then a week for a book?!

Good but 1 problem. Very often at random times my iPad freezes and also when you download a book it should save so if you re-borrow it you can read it without it taking ages to download, I’ll appreciate if you fix this thank you 😁

Improvement. Sora is the best but i hate it when you have to wait to read a book Thank P.S sora is the best like the best way to read books

Huh?. It doesn’t have my school and also I have tried to find my school but I couldn’t find it?

Its ok....but. The app is really good for my late night reading and listening to audiobooks but sometimes it can be really slow and saying I have to sign in again. Please make an update where there is no bugs. PLEASE!

This is good but needs some work. You need mango hill state school and secondary school

I can’t log in. My problem with this app is that it won’t let me sign in. I’ve searched my school and the city I live in and it still would not work for me.

Signing up. It took me 4hour to do my name why? It sai not found like my email like what the

Kinda good but also kinda annoying. Sora is good and there is a lot of good books but I hate the place hold thing. The book I was trying to get I had to wait 9 weeks my other book it was 7 weeks and the last books was 16 weeks! My friend returned the book I really wanted and was On my wish list. But when she returned it I still couldn’t get it. Pls fix these problems if you can.

It’s bad. It’s annoying and it does work

Good but some problems. Hi I love reading books but sometimes if I am reading a page with a lot of writing the app will not let me turn the page and gets me very frustrated and when you borrow a book it once took me half an hour to download or something! So if you can please fix the app and that would be greatly appreciated 🙂

Thought it would be better. Sora takes forever to load I can’t even read 4 pages without it freezing

The best books ever. I love reading sora books

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Great app!- sort of. So almost EVERY TIME i get in Sora and open a book it lags and i have to restart the app, all i want is to read, plz fix this Overall it’s a good app, add more books tho why only have 1-2 copies, WHY? Also plz add game over

Fun. I love Sora because it’s fun but you sometimes have to wait for a long time to get the book

It’s fine... I gush got the app or game? And it’s just ok?

Yikes. The buks on this ap is too hard to reed and domt licke the confusien sintences in buks😡😡😡.

Good app. The app is pretty good. The books though, are not for everyone. The books are for kids in grades 2-4. If you are older, like me you might find it hard to find books you are actually interested in.

Privacy?. When I sign in to the app it just says something is wrong and then a private policy pops up I can’t even sign in wow!

I Can Read During Quarantine!!!. This app is the best! I have had it for a while with my school but never really used it. Once my school and the public libraries closed I couldn’t read any new books! I started playing around with the app seeing which books they had and reading/listing to samples. This got me borrowing books such as Harry Potter. It was fun listing to books while doing other stuff like painting or cleaning! I admit the login proses was a bit confusing because you have to pick you’re school board, but other then that haven't had any issues. Would recommend this app if you aren’t able to get real books, although I do prefer real books 😝.

Sora. I like the app I would recommend it definitely For me the app was a good use But for everyone it’s different Hope u enjoy

Didn’t even work. The app didn’t even let my kid sign in to their account.

Bookmarks won’t save. My bookmark highlights DO NOT SAVE, so I constantly lose all my notes. It is extremely frustrating, to the point that I do not want to use Sora anymore because I can’t keep track of notes when they disappear from my book. I need these notes for classes. If it won’t save my notes, I won’t use the app.

Bad. Why can’t it just let you in instead a password? And why do we have to wait for books?!! The whole reason we got this app is to read not wait for books and take an hour or 2 signing in??!

Meh. Takes lots of space on any device so watch out also it freezes alot but other wise its good

Meh. It’s not too bad on my computer. In fact, it works pretty well. I love reading books on Sora but it just won’t open on my mobile device. Cannot find my school and without a school you cannot get into it at all. If you are not using this for your school there is no use downloading this. Definitely needs some improvement.

.... It dosnt have the best books in sora.... you have to wait at least 6 months for a popular book... what is there that sora can do? Even the bookmarks don’t even save

Sora. In my opinion sora is the best I love reading on sora everyday and I just love their huge book selection

Sora. I love it. It is so amazing!!!

It is so annoying. Whenever I search for my school it finds it then when I have to put my email address it doesn’t work it’s so annoying

Lack of books. I would not recommend this app for anybody in grade 3 to 7 or 8 as the books they provided you with is horrible and is much to under level for my reading

Sora is mid. Way too many glitches and I can’t even read majority of books L

Useless. Why have it where books can be taken and you have to get put on a incredibly long wait list? For an app? With E-books????

No school name. First I started typing in my school, which isn’t particularly popular but none the less I did. I could.d not find it. At this point a bit fed up but I desired to look at the reviews for some tips. That’s where I found the trick I needed, to type in the district. I tried and no luck. Now I've just deleted multiple apps for storage to be given no app. Thanks.

Good. I like it. I check out books from my school library and also from Calgary Public Library

Trash. Trash

Holds. Unknown wait time be like: 1000 years passes. Sora : not yet. Like don’t want to be mean but please overdrive! Fix that problem. If you don’t have it then say that you don’t have it.

Problem. They don’t have my school

Reading is fun. You have to be in a school to do it and it’s really good if you love reading

Mangas are good!. It was very good. I enjoyed reading a lot more :) Hopefully it helps encourage people to read?

Hope this might help. For anyone who is wondering how to find their school (because I sure was) you don’t search the school, you search the school board.

bad. bad

Dumb. Apparently only one person can listen to a book at a time??? It might just be a school thing because I’m using my school account but that’s pretty pathetic

Wof. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GET MORE WINGS OF FIRE BOOKS, I NEED TO READ THEM, PLEASE PLEASE 🙏 PLEASE 🙏 PLEASE 🙏 I LOVE SORA SO MUCH, THROW ME A BONE 🦴, I REALLY WANT THIS 🥰

What happened?. This used to be my most used app, I read/listened to so many books but now they don’t have anything anymore. Like what, how can you not have any Orwell books or even something basic like Harry Potter? It’s pretty distressing what happened

Awesome!. This app is awesome and lets me read my book in peace. Recommend to anyone! 👍👍

Great, and why bad-mouth it?. Sora is a great app with great books and a wide variety between the books, so why bad-mouth it? Maker of Sora, do not listen to these people bad-mouthing your app, and keep on doing a great job giving people books. P.S. could there PLEASE be more Star Wars books?

Landscape mode problem. I love reading in portrait mode but I keep getting stuck in landscape mode and it’s Sora not my phone I don’t know how to fix it and there should be a setting for portrait or landscape mode

Not bad. This app was awesome when it worked. I can’t log back in and I can’t read any book. I will say the selection of books is good.

Good but can be better. It sometimes gliches and im always on hold for a book for longer than it says, also not enough science and nerd type books. But other than that it is a good app for school.

👎. It dose not even download

Problems. I cant find my school!! It’s annoying me! Every time I try to find it makes me go to a school that’s far away! :( please fix this. It’s annoying

Ok-ish. It’s ok, kinda. It always glitches and keeps Kicking me out. But I mean the books are good so :|

Sora. Sora Is Supreme! I don’t know what y’all are talking about!

Weird. I like the point of this but i don’t get it because this app was supposed to take out the inconvenience of library return dates and not having enough copies so what’s the point cool tho

Piggy’s. I had it on my iPad it was good and everything was fine then I switch to my phone and I can’t even find my school it’s making me so mad so I would give it 5 stars but since my school and another school that I was going to use cuz my mom works there in not on it so I’m really frustrated I’m trying to do stuff and it’s not alloweong me to find my school

My progress disappeared!. I was reading my book and it still had 3 dues TIL it had to be returned and my iPad crashed, when I got back on Sora my reading progress and my books were all gone, my library was empty this app is frustrating and was really disappointed in this app.

E. Hello I love Sora, I just wish that you could zoom in so that it’s easier to read. :)

Why. I was looking and i can’t find my school division it very disappointing

it’s not working. Every time I tried to click on my school board it always says it’s unavailable.👎👎👎terrible app

Cool sora. Sora only can read cool

Ok-ish. It’s good but it keeps freezing when I finish a chapter

The new update. In the new update I cant read cuz I can’t see the words on the page. Other than that I love it.

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Great App!. This app is really great and I’ve been using it for a while now. However, I have been experiencing a bit of trouble recently. Everything was fine, and I had just gone into the app, when I realized that all the books I had borrowed were gone. I figured it might just be a glitch, so I went in and out again, but it still wasn’t working. So I tried to type the name of a book I wanted to read, and it started to load for a while, but then it said “could not load this list. Please try another”. I’ve tried all kinds of different books, and nothing works. I even deleted and reinstalled the app, but nothing is working. I was wondering if there was a way to fix this, or if I should just wait for a while. Please reply back soon if you can fix it. Thank you!

The concept is nice but.... I only recently got this app and I’m hoping to be proven wrong but right off the bat I see some issues. For one, even though they have access to your clever account, which I believe has your grade and lexile score, I was recommended books for 3rd graders despite being in 7th grade. And even the books that were “on level” had lexile less than a thousand and-age counts not reaching 200. My lexile score for the record was 1413. This is the thing I have the most trouble with on kids websites. They seem to assume all of us are below average and group 5th graders in with kindergarteners in reading level. The next thing is the “fantasy” section. I have read many a book in this genre written in the last decade. So why are all the books on the websites not? I know old books can be good, but by now the writing pales in comparison to modern books that actually engage the reader. I can name hundreds of modern fantasy books yet they don’t have a single decent one. I’m not sure how this works, and if it’s a problem with the rights and copyright and stuff that’s fine, but please make your system see what grade and lexile score your on. No dignified 7th grader is going to be caught dead reading “Spongebob: Surfs Up!”

Ugh!. I love Overdrive abs have used it for many, many years with no problems but was forced to download and use this with the Audiosync program I use with my students. The app almost never works. It either shows the initial icon and then turns black, or gets stuck on the initial icon screen. I’ve reinstalled, restarted the devices, tried WiFi and cellular, even multiple devices - nothing works. I finally found a contact email and they said it’s not the app. Well... everything else works perfectly fine and this doesn’t. I hate when companies force you to use their proprietary software.

Use it for school but........... Okay Sora is good. I like it. It’s not their fault that they got four stars. It’s that recently I stumbled across a app called Libby and it was so good, even better than Sora. Plus, I only got Sora cause my school used it, but I realized that I can use my school library on Libby too. I am not a Libby advertiser, just a real customer, and plan on keeping Sora, but overdrive and Libby can add two libraries and allow me to navigate between my school and public libraries. This makes me use Sora less and less but overall the app is good and deserves 4 stars but if you want an exceptional five star app just get Libby and if you want two libraries get overdrive. Sora is good, maybe even great, but not as good as Libby or overdrive. I encourage you get those apps instead.

Good, but a few things. I really like using sora when I feel bored or am in need of a book, and for that it works fine. But it only allows you to borrow three books at a time, which is slightly annoying to me. For example, you have to give up a book you are halfway through reading because you would like this other book. Or, you would like to check out a whole series but you can only have 3 of the books at a time. Also, most of the books are more for smaller children. I understand that this is an app created for kids, but if you could add a few more books for people past 5th grade, that would be great. :)

Great but the hold wait is too long. This is a pretty great app. But the hold wait is way too long. I tried getting some books to read but the wait is 6 months long. I much rather just go out and buy the book than wait THAT long. And I looked at multiple books and all of them had super long holding time. Possibly the person holding it forgot about the app or the book and has it in their inbox but this is absolutely ridiculous. 6 months?! No thank you. I rather go to my local library to go and borrow the book there.

Minor issues. Everyday when I got home I would use Sora, right? But when I finished a book (Ex: Warrior Cats) I would want the sequel, which they didn’t have, so I would go to the library and try and get it, but I have a pretty small library in my town, so it would be on hold, lost, or they didn’t have it. Overall I think it’s great, but there are some more minor issues. 1. The hold system. I don’t understand why you would need that on a digital app? When I wanted to read a book, and it was on hold, I hat to wait 2-4 weeks just for one person (unless they returned it). 2. How they recommended books. I am in 6th grade, but I logged in with clever which has test scores, etc. so it recommended 3-4th grade books, so I had to think of books I wanted and search for them at the search bar.

Appropriateness Level. The app says it’s for ages 4 and up. There are definitely books on this app that are good for that age, but I wouldn’t recommend this app because there are also lots of books with profanity and violence. If you click on one of the categories, for example mystery, you get books written for elementary kids and books for adults on the same screen. Sometimes it’s hard to find something for my age. Beyond a few good series, I have to choose between boredom (books written for people younger than me), or books with bad profanity and violence.

Sora is amazing!. Sora is an amazing app! You can check out books online. It can be really handy for students or someone who needs a book for their SA or assignment! However there is one thing that can be annoying, whenever I want to check out a book sometimes somebody has already checked it out so I’m not able to borrow it or read it until the person who checked it out returns it or it gets returned because it got to the end of their due date. Other than that Sora is an amazing app and I definitely recommend!!!

My favorite library app!. I’ve been using this for a few years thru my online school. I like using it for everything from audiobooks to ebooks (my personal favorite) to comics. Comics are a little tricky to read from my phone because the type is so small but I can zoom in on the pages. Lately I’ve been having a little trouble when I want to renew a book. I checked to see if I needed to renew a book and it said I could renew in one day, three days before it would expire. I checked again the next day, and it wouldn’t allow me to renew a book. I’ve had this happen a few times when I’ve needed to renew a book. I can’t renew a book.

FAT. Why did THeY Deleted THE NAZI INVASION I SURVIVED GRAPHIC NOVEL Like WHY!!! it WAS MY VERY FAV IN 1st PLACE I HATE SORA

Love it! But…. I love this app! But there is a glitch of sorts in it. There’s a book that I really want to read but I have to put it on hold to get it. I’ve been waiting for 5 MONTHS and when I checked the page it said that no one was using the book and I was the first person in line. But I still couldn’t check the book out. PLEASE FIX THIS it makes it impossible to read a lot of books.

BEST READING THING EVER. EVER

Very Useful but been waiting on a hold. I love Sora and use it a lot. It’s great for school and also relaxing. You can choose any books you want it’s awesome when you can bookmark and highlight words and phrases in the book and come back to it later. However, the holds are not good. I placed a hold for a book on January 3rd, 2021. I was the first person in line after the person who had the book right now. It’s now May 6th and I am still waiting for the book! There are 5 other people in line behind me but I think the person who was reading it is not on Sora anymore. But it won’t release the book to me. Can that be changed?

One problem.... Sora is a great app and I use it a lot. But there is one problem. I tried to log in on one of my devices and accidentally put in the wrong passcode and of course it said try again. But then when I tried again I clicked the sign in button a pop up showed up and said that it couldn’t find my account. I restarted the app and it still didn’t work. Then, I deleted the app and got it again and it still won’t work. I’ve done this several times and it’s still not working. I am very upset amped annoyed and really want to use this app.

Terrible app. This app is the worst app I have ever used. One of the experiences I had with this app is that one time I opened the book and sora said that there was only 300 pages. When I continued to read the book the total number of pages increased. When I finished reading the book it turns out that there were more than 600 pages. This app is so misleading. I had to read the book off of Sora for my book report so it took forever to read the whole thing, which I at first thought was only 300 pages. My friend also had a problem with Sora as well. She waited 3 weeks to receive her book because Sora said the book was on hold. The book never came so she had to get it from the library instead. So ridiculous.

AMAZING!!!❤️ but.... Amazing app for kids! Has a ton of books for anyone’s level! No ads, no glitches seen so far. I recommend this app for any student! But, there is one issue. I have had quite a few books now that say they have an unknown wait. I have had books that say the wait is about 6 months, and I have waited more that half a year now and they still aren’t available. One tip to fix that, but overall it’s a really great app! ❤️ 📚 ❤️ 📖❤️

This app is amazing!. This app is pretty awesome! I just started readied a new book called: RESTART! On December I listened to the Christmas Carol audiobook which was three hours long, but even though it was quite lengthy, I loved it the whole journey through! I’m also reading Cam Janson, I also read the silly alphabet song, do you know what has a trunk, is a blue whale the biggest thing there is, music, music, music, a picture book of Martin Luther King, Jr, dogs, guts, sisters, smile, ice cream, mickey’s Christmas Carol, bad case of strips, the book with no pitcures,, (I started reading stay where you are and then leave) and also the couch potato, the great egg scape, the bad seed presents the good, the bad, and the spooky. And also the smart cookie, the good egg, the bad seed, and the cool bean! Ha! and those are pretty funny books! And I know this review is not just supposed to be about the books I read, so I will tell you some things. I hope this app will allow you to have profiles of pitcures you have saved in your photos, instead of just profile pitcures the app has given to you. Anyway, other than all of that, I think everybody should own this app!

I love this!. I love how there is a timer and it stops after 30 minutes! One thing on the downside, it needs to rate books like tv shows. I got the book 13 reasons why not realizing it was a little mature. I start reading it and it just didn't seem like it should have been for me. And I didn't know at all! If there could be something to help this please let me know :) but besides that I love the app! It's useful right now since my school is not currently going. I also love how it shows you how many books and how many minutes you have listened to or read. Thank you for reading my ted talk. Get the dang app.

Fine App, but needs work. Sora is an excellent app for students to read books they pick and that their teachers assign. But Sora’s interface can be glitchy. On the achievements page for students where they can see reading achievements they earned you cannot scroll. If I open the app after it’s restarted and immediately go to the achievements page I can scroll down and up but if I open it again after going to a different page or I open the app before it’s restarted then it is frozen with scrolling no scroll up no scroll down. And it’s extremely annoying that you need to restart the app to scroll in your achievements. Also I started reading at 11AM and finished at 11:30AM but it gave me the achievement “Early Bird” for reading before 7AM?! I couldn’t find any setting to change the time so it now has no idea of the time. Please fix these glitches.

Great app but one problem. I love this app but there is one problem I encountered. The app worked fine for the first book I read but on it but the second book I tried to read wouldn’t flip to the next page or anything. The app would freeze and kick me off of it whenever I would try to use different buttons when it was frozen and sometimes it would just crash normally while it was frozen. Is there any way to fix this?

Love it tho. I love this app I only have one problem when ever I find a book I might like I find out u have the third and not the first or second or the last one which makes it really hard for me to find a book I might like I do think that greatly needs to be fixed I also have an example I am reading the Harry Potter books well u don’t have the last one or wings of fire u have like the first six but that’s it I think it would great if u could go through and download all the books in series u don’t have it would make the app 20 times better

So great!!!. I absolutely love Sora! I have used it for a while now and have had no problems. I love to download audiobooks to listen to and to read ebooks. There is such variety of genre and level. I like how you can do an advanced search and narrow it down to almost exactly what you want. Although Sora doesn’t always have what I’m looking for, it’s still a great app! I do have a request though. I know you can earn badges in all, but I think you should be able to set reading goals! Teachers should set goals for theirs students and students should be able to set goals for themselves too. Thank you so so much! - A very happy customer

What happened?. Now that app works again, it’s a fine app but I prefer overdrive. I wish you could sort titles by unread/read so I don’t have to scroll around looking. Sora looks prettier but I prefer function over cutesy. Overdrive just seems to be easier to maneuver around in & designed for phone savvy people. Sora looks like it’s for Elementary aged kids. Old Review from Dec 2020: Sora worked fine this summer but about a week ago my app won’t open, it’s stuck on main screen. I didn’t want to delete for fear of losing all the books or any saved info. Anyone else experiencing this issue? HELP Overdrive/Sora, you’re my only hope.

Great app! Just one pretty major thing.... I really like sora! So much, in fact, I have it both on my computer at school, and my phone at home. When I went to school today I found I couldn’t check out the audiobook I wanted, so I tried to log out the in again, but it still didn’t work. Then I tried to check out a regular ebook. And this worked, but I didn’t want the ebook, I wanted an audiobook because ebooks can make my eyes hurt. I came home, hoping to check out a book here, then read it at school. I tried and it wouldn’t even let me download a regular ebook. At this point I’m really annoyed so I log out then in again, it STILL doesn’t work. I DELETE THE APP, RE- DOWNLOAD IT, LOG IN, SHUT DOWN MY PHONE, COMPLETELY REBOOT, AND IT STILL DOESNT WORK. I rely on sora for reading and this has me REALLY mad. Thank you, A loyal/concerned user

Issues With Checking Out Books. I love reading, so being able to use Sora on my phone without having to go through the website seemed great to me. But I do have so issues with it. For one thing, the app refuses to let me renew books. I understand sometimes this is because the book is on hold for someone else, but even the books with no line will not be renewed for me. I end up having to return the book and check it out again. And about that, sometimes the app just won’t let me check out available books, saying that I ‘can’t get this book with my type of account’, despite allowing me to access it just a few minutes before. I usually have to wait a few days before I can check it out again, which is inconvenient since I use these books for school. TL;DR, This app is fine for casual reading, but if you need it to be reliably, I wouldn’t recommend. It’ll just put you behind with all the problems.

DONT GET. I’M LEASE DONR GET MY GRANMA WAS USING IT A THE SORA MASCOT JUMPEDBOUT THE SCREEN AND JUMPED HER AND PUSHED HER DIEN THE STAURS AND PULLED OFF HER WEAV I HARR THIS APP DONT GET

Great for audiobooks, but.... I am a student who uses this app to listen to audiobooks during this pandemic, but with that I have a question: Why do you need to borrow and renew audiobooks? And here’s a better one: Why can I not renew an AUDIOBOOK when someone has a hold on it? It’s not like it’s an actual book that there is only one of, in fact, why is it even like this at all? Isn’t the whole point of a virtual library to keep books easily accessible? Maybe there is something that I don’t understand, but this system is REALLY stupid. (I know I complained a lot, but it’s still good, and is still a really easy way to access good reads or listens)

Great! But only used for school..... This app is great! I can read my favorite comic series on this for free! But, I’m a little disappointed this is only for school. Like maybe you can add an option that makes it so you can use sora for personal use. I know that the point of Sora is to borrow books from school libraries, but you should really add an option for personal use somehow, like maybe make public libraries not for school use.

I love this app! One issue though.. Hello reader, I love this app, if you are looking for an app with a large selection of e-books and audio books then this is the place for you! 📚 I was so excited when my English teacher recommended this app to me! I love how you can also get fun little achievements for reading different genres, renewing a book, returning a book early, etc. The selection is awesome 👏 👏 👏! My only issue with this app is the checkout limit, three books total (both your e-books and audio books combined not three each). Could the developers possibly bring it up to four, or maybe five? Thanks so much for reading! Bye!

VERY GLITCHY AND FREEZES A LOT but good app and has MANY good books!. Great app but its needs work. It freezes a lot and glitches too. I was trying to read a book and then it freezes randomly. I don't know but I just wish it were less glitchy. I used to use Epic! but I think this is a better app except for how glitchy it is. Thanks for the app though! Also, I don’t understand why people keep saying it’s inappropriate. You are able to set the preferences to a certain age and grade and lexile score so you shouldn’t see cusses everywhere. 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Great for Early&Advanced Readers. This app is really amazing, I save a lot of money by getting all my reading done online! I read about 2 books a month so 24 books a year let’s say each book is $10 then I save $240 each year. That’s not even including the extra space I don’t need to clear for books. I also like how you can read on the go, if I’m bored I can just pop out my phone and read. I also like how I have a wide variety of books to choose from. All in all this app is a great place to just read and improve your mood.

Great app!. I love sora! It’s great to settle down with a nice big selection of books right on my phone. I love how large the selection is and how many different genres of books there are. One thing though, when you have a book on hold, if it says you have to wait 6 weeks to get it, it stays saying 6 weeks even if you only have 1 week of remaining time. This is inconvenient because sometimes I forget how many weeks it’s been since I’ve put the book on hold. Other than that, I love the app and it’s awesome! 👏

App. Not the best app

Will not alert you that your loan is ready. This app is similar to Libby, but Libby is far superior. The main problem is that when you put a book on hold and it becomes available, the app does not let you know. The only way to discover that your hold is ready to borrow, is to open it each day to check. If you forget to open and check on the day the book becomes available, you lose your hold and have to go to the back of the line again. If you’re waiting several weeks for your hole to become available, sometimes you forget to open the app on a given day to check. Libby will notify you by email and phone notifications when your hold is available to check out. Until this app is updated with this feature, it only earns one star.

Pretty good app. This app is really good for finding books you can’t find in your school library I will be using this app to find books that I couldn’t find in my school library. This app is pretty great there really isn’t that Many issue except from when you have to download the book it takes a really long time. It took me about 10 minutes to download a book. But other than that everything is great the app is fast and easy to use.

Fun app, but needs a little work.. Sora is a nice app but however, it has issues. My child was obsessed with reading on Sora when her school introduced it to her, so she read a lot everyday. However, when she opened Sora a few days later, when she wanted to borrow a book, it said, ‘You checked out and returned too many titles in a short time please try again later.’ I would get that if she did NOT return the titles, but that makes no sense because they were basically stopping my daughter from reading! And another thing Sora could be working on, my daughter can only check out one book at a time and hold one book at a time, why aren’t they letting her check out and hold more? So Sora’s a good app when you actually can read on there, otherwise, it could use some work.

Literally amazing, but..... Okay, so to be honest, I think Sora is a great way to read your books online. There are cool features available which are quick and easy to use, and they are very descriptive when it comes to books. Sora also represents your local library very well--but an online version. A few things that they could work on improving is creating a larger collection of books. I also am experiencing a bug that makes it so I can't open any book, but it might just be a wifi problem. Anyway, this app has its pros and cons, but I still would recommend it for anyone willing to read ebooks!

It’s a good reading app but..... Sora is an amazing app. I use it in school AND at home. I find ALL the books I love to read that I cant find on other apps. I love how it’s like a real library, s I feel like I’m at school instead of home, due to Covid. You think it should be 5 star about what I explained? Well you’re wrong. Why I gave it 4 stars is for 2 reasons. 1) It’s an online app, so when I want to read on the plane I cant. 2) There’s this glitch I hate. Whenever I want to read an interesting book about history, I click on the book, I click on read. All it shows is lines. Then I realize I’m not in a good spot. I go to a fully internet spot. Then it works. I realize it’s not the start of the book. When I get to the start, it shows those lines again. Then it instantly kicks me out of Sora. Please fix this.

Want to read more books. Sora is great and all but for some reason it says that I’ve reached my hold limit even if I have one book on hold. I think that should be fixed because there are some books I want to read and I can’t place them on hold. Also it would be nice if you could add more badges. Edit: Also I have to wait a million years to get one book. (Okay maybe not a million but I have to wait like SIX MONTHS) please read this and I hope you can fix mine and other peoples requests. From A reader

Doesn’t hold your place in audio. I like that this is free, but the app needs work. Every time I reopen my audiobook it shoots me back to like 5 chapters before and I have to re-find my place. This can be extremely annoying because when you’re listening you’re not necessarily paying attention to what chapter you’re on. To those that are complaining about wait lines for ebooks and audiobooks, though, THIS IS HOW THE LIBRARY WORKS and is not an issue with the app. Libraries buy e-copies of the book but are not allowed to loan out infinite copies. Otherwise the publishers/authors wouldn’t make any money.

Perfect! But could have a few better features. I’ll start out by saying I love this app. As a huge reader I found it really useful to have my entire school library on my phone. One thing is if I was waiting for a hold, I wouldn’t find out my hold was ready until I opened the app to read something else. I think it would be really useful to have notifications that would send out to alert you when a hold was ready or when it was almost time to take a book back. Other than that, it’s a perfect app for students like me who love reading on their phones. I highly recommend it to anyone who doesn’t like reading as much because their are audiobooks as well as ebooks. Anyway please look into the notifications thing and thank you for your time!

Really Great App, One Problem. I am an 8th Grader and use this app all of the time to listen to books. Unfortunately, recently the app has been crashing after only listening to a book for about 5 minutes. I will note that this only seems to happen when my phone is off, but I am confused on whether or not it is my phone or the app. If Sora could look into this problem and resolve it, then this app would definitely get 5 stars. It is a great app though!

Good, but some bugs. Overall sora is a wonderful app that helps give access to many very good books, a few problems though. First, I would like to address my most recent issue. There is a glitch were my pages just randomly freeze and I cannot turn without exciting the app and reloading it. This is very frustrating as it happens every Tim I turn a page. Next, I would like to address the problem of being randomly logged out. Before the prior problem started, sometimes I would be reading peacefully and the app will just crash for no reason. Other than that, this app is a very good instalment. Developers, if you could please look into these issues I would greatly appreciate it.

uh uh. WHERE IS MY SCHOOL. u dare disclude MYY school?! the sheer audacity ADD IT NOW >:(

Does not accurately save where I left off. This app has such potential but there’s one huge issue… whenever I re-open an audiobook after not listening for a few hours, I find that the app didn’t save where I left off! It always starts me back about 20 minutes from where I really left off so I have to manually fast forward and figure out where to pick back up which is SO frustrating! Definitely not a great user experience. After I finish the book I’m currently listening to in Sora, I’ll be going back to using Overdrive or maybe I’ll try out Libby.

Great App. I used to use the online version of this app before deciding to try the actual app and boy I’m I glad I sucked it up and downloaded this. I love that I can read without WiFi and that I don’t have up sign in every time I want to read. Ever since stuff has been closing I’ve been having to buy books online but with Sora I am able to get them for free and read anytime. It’s really nice and convenient little library in your pocket. I would absolutely recommend this to anyone and everyone. Thank you for your time. I hope you enjoyed my fricken Ted talk.

Pros and Cons. Pros: Feels authentic Books read from electronics No need to go to the library Audio books Cons: Hold placements: why do you need hold placements on an electronic book app? The book isn’t exactly an object you picked up from the library. It feels like this app could have accomplished so much more is this wasn’t a feature. Electronic books should not have a checkout line. Interface: the interface is glitchy at worst, an annoyance at best. Sampling: when I sample a book I have to return to where I found the book instead of just being able to borrow it right then and there In all, I feel like this app should be an alternative if someone has already borrowed the book you were after in the library, it shouldn’t function as if it were a library itself, at least not with the extreme downsides of the library

FIX THIS APP!!!!. Major problems with this app 1. Copies disappear and you aren't able to check them out at all. I had a hold on a certain book for a year, and I never got to read it. 2. There isn't a good book selection. One thing that bugs me about this app is that it doesn't have a lot of new and popular books to choose from. Unless you like reading boring classics from a million years ago, there aren't a lot of newer or interesting books. I mean sure there is a few popular series and novels but they're always checked out constantly. To improve this app, I would suggest fixing the problems with the check outs, and improving the book selection.

Really good. I really think Sora is a great app, and you can read a wide variety of books. However, right now I can’t check out anymore books because it says I returned and borrowed too many books in a short period of time and I have to try again later. Now, I’ve been waiting for 2 days and it still says the same thing. If that gets fixed, then this would be the best reading app ever. It is amazing in every other way, and has great aspects.