Go Books Reviews – Page 3
5/5 rating based on 54 reviews. Read all reviews for Go Books for iPhone.
Go Books is free iOS app published by Smart Go, Inc.
Fantastic library
LanguiDude
If you want to build your Go library (and don't want to spend $20+ per book) this is the right app for you! The previews are enough to give you a decent idea of whether you want the book, and sometimes are even enough to help improve your game, of only that little bit.
No searching or bookmarking facility
mixerman23
This app would be great, but there's no way to search a book, or to bookmark a page. This is a serious shortcoming for a reader intended to be used with reference material such as instructional books. If you buy a book within this app, you're locked into the app and can't read it in any other more full-featured reader app (such as Kindle, or Goodreader). A really unfortunate oversight for what could be such a nice app.
Excellent
Broske73
So much better than reading a go book on paper! I could not go back to paper after using this app.
Fantastic
NaN - Not a Nickname
Access to many hard to find or out of print books. Ever expanding selection for all levels of players. Fantastic feature set with very timely developer support.
Nice content, but some really irritating bugs
sprocketsandrockets
I've enjoyed reading a few of these books now, and would recommend this app except for the hugely annoying problem that it frequently forgets where you are in the book. It is very frustrating to reopen a book wanting to pick up where you left off only to see the title page yet again. 1. Fix the issue with forgetting your current page. 2. Add bookmarking. 3. Fix consistency issues with the example boards in the books - sometimes you can step through the shown sequence, other times when you tap the board it just clears the numbered stones and makes you play the sequence yourself. The Graded Problems books are especially annoying in this regard, as sometimes for no discernible reason the 'grading' feature isn't there, you just play stones with no feedback other than turning the page. 4. The ui and board interactions are frequently laggy. What's so hard about drawing a circle that the app has to think about it for a whole second before actually doing it?
Great
sactjs
Excellent app for go players of all levels. Great collection of go books and I love how you can play the moves on the diagrams within the books. Only 2 minor things that bug me about the app which I hope they can fix in a future update - I am prompted to enter my apple store password every single time I use the app to read a go book, and 2) I can't find a way to bookmark my page in the book!
Best way to buy and read go books
Brentus
If you want to study go, this app should be a no-brainer. You can play through the diagrams right in the books, which is really handy. The books cost money but you can read sizeable samples before buying any of them. It's really amazing and I hope it gets even more books over time (and it has been doing that regularly).