Tucson Festival of Books
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Free | Star Publishing Company | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
There are writing workshops and competitions, panel presentations, live cooking demonstrations, exhibits, children's activities, storytelling, artists, musicians, and a literary-themed circus show. Local restaurants spice up the food offerings.
This app is your mobile companion to the Festival. It includes profiles of the 450 participating authors and presenters, and a complete guide to times and locations of the Festival's events. Meet your favorite best-selling author or get tips on how to break into the business yourself - there truly is something for all readers, of all ages.
You'll also have a pocket guide to the 200-plus exhibitors and sponsors, along with access to latest Festival news (such as last-minute schedule changes).
The 2018 Tucson Festival of Books takes place March 10 and 11 on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson. Admission is free. Sponsors of the Festival include the Arizona Daily Star, the University of Arizona and the University Medical Center.
Over the last nine years the Festival has donated $1,650,000 to literacy organizations, helping to build a stronger more literate community for us all.
Reviews
Useful, but needs linking to calendar
azstarman1
The App would be really useful if one could choose an event and have it (name, time, place) entered into the iPhone/iTouch calendar!
Forward thinking and well-executed
tucsonjhall
I missed the event last year because the concept didn't capture my imagination. This year, I attended and what an amazing event. I can understand why people come from around the country to attend. Then I found this iPhone app that laid out the schedule in a concise and precise manner and I'm off to restart my objective-c programming. The perfect use of a small application to fill a need for those of us who don't like carrying around newspaper-sized schedules of events. Very well done!
Tucson Festival of Books
Cactus Flower
It was a good app except for one flaw - it wasn't updated. When I checked on Sunday for times and programs, the app had all the info for SATURDAY ....not a good thing!
Good start
CommSon
Good start & definitely better than their web site for ease of locating event info. Five stars if author & moderator names in event listings linked to bios, and if all events contained a one-sentence (or more) description. Some require too much guessing.
Could be So Much Better
JD-ologist
I didn't end up using this app because it was mainly a long list of sessions and it was just easier to use the printed schedule, as we could mark interesting sessions and see more details than this app provided. My advice: 1) add a search function, 2) allow me to mark sessions as favorites so I can view my own custom session list and not have to scroll through the entire list each time, 3) allow filtering the list by time - no need to look at sessions that are over, 4) add a map - since this app didn't have one, we had to get a paper schedule anyway, 5) leverage the Internet and include links to author websites, etc.
Good start
Letplane
You can only search authors, events and exhibitors alphabetically. This app will be handy if you already know what you want to find. It would be much more useful if you could search by genre. I would also love to see a map of the event that could be enlarged to the size of an iPad screen.
Crashing
Karebear68
Great app for volunteers...I used it while volunteering in 2011. Looking forward to using it again on my iPhone. One problem: any time I try to access the list of authors, the app crashes! A fix by next week would be helpful
Constantly crashes
Questrala
I am giving this 3 stars but that is generous. The app crashes regularly and there are large portions of data missing (for instance, the authors list is empty and every update that runs crashes the app). Future versions also really need some search capability and a map - preferably location aware. Maybe this app has that already under INFO, but that's another part of the interface that I can't access without a crash. I will forward crash logs via the support site if possible. Thanks for at least trying - it's not easy to manage apps like this that center around an annual event...but please put more time and testing into it next time! It really needs some help.
