The Times Literary Supplement Reviews
5/5 rating based on 75 reviews. Read all reviews for The Times Literary Supplement for iPhone.
The Times Literary Supplement is free iOS app published by Times Media Limited (Apps)
Among the worst
Ibrahim2631
Constantly have to re-log in. App is not user friendly. Once you're in it's ok to navigate the issue.
Loyal to paper, but grateful for app
Bagradian
A longtime subscriber to the hard copy edition, I am still loyal to the paper version but find the app a sensible and practical alternative when I’m on travel. Its main virtues are simplicity, clarity, and - frankly - a direct reflection of the printed version’s structure. Less is more. My only recommendation is to keep the articles’ titles identical to the hard copy edition.
Works fine in a pinch
Steve Brooks - Tucson, AZ
I prefer the paper — the feel, the smell, the look of it, the turning of its pages and folding it in half to tuck it under my arm as I make my way to wherever I’m not content to be without the TLS by my side — but there are times when I’m finished with the paper or when I haven’t brought it with me, and this app does well to provide a not-too-far-off-from-the-paper satisfaction. It’s not beautiful, as the paper is, but it’s all there. Too, the archive goes way back, so there’s always something new (to me) to read.
Consistently good
milomarch
Less ideal than print, on line still serves a useful purpose. On my iPad thus far everything works well and the formatting of articles is excellent.
Superb Reviews
Filderman
The range of topics is staggering, the depth of knowledge is almost always profound, and the attempt to cover the best and the brightest (often not the most well-known) is constantly impressive. In our Era of World Mediocrity, the historic TLS continues to be a bright beacon of intellectual hope.
Keep having to redownload issues
aileverte
For some time now, and even without the app getting any updates, it seems, I keep losing the issues I had downloaded. It’s a real pain to have to redownload things all the time, never mind that you still get logged out at intervals. Please at least go back to a version that kept the downloads. I love the journal and often like to revisit issues, and seldom get through the whole one within a week.
App
TLSfrustration
Worst. App. Ever. Have been a subscriber for so many years, yet must re-sign in constantly and do not always have necessary info at hand. Joan Sindall Cambridge MA
I guess I’m not the target user, but who is?
Nebba2
While I so far I haven’t had the login issues that others have reported, I have substantial complaints: 1. I prefer to select what to read based on the topic and author of the books being reviewed, but that information is deeply buried. Thematic heads like “SCIENCE” are often too broad to help. 2. The information that is prominent in the table of contents includes reviewers’ names that I only sometimes recognize, and review titles, selected for cleverness rather than utility. 3. In print, I read a bit of the review, then look at who the reviewer is, and return to the review. In the app, this is a cumbersome process. 4. On my iPad, the app will orient to landscape from either side, but portrait only one way, and not the way that would be most useful.