Degraded app – The Times Literary Supplement Review

I have cancelled my subscription. What follows is the record of a good app gone bad. Original review: I have not encountered the authorization problem others report. The app is working fine for me. While I am sure that something could be added to it, I am quite happy with it as it is. It combines simplicity with function in a fashion that can only be described as elegant. The layout results in a degree of readability I have seen in no other iPad app. I just wish it were independent of Apple's Newsstand, so I could keep it right on top of my iPad home page. Update May 16, 2015: I have reduced my rating for this app. In both this and the previous version, the reader could select specific articles from the current and previous issues, to be saved and read later. But the previous version provided a table of contents for bookmarked articles. All the reader had to do was scroll down the list and tap on the article he wanted to read. The new version presents a carousel which requires the reader to swipe through every page of each of the saved articles until he gets to the article he wants to read. This is tedious. It might make some sense if each item on the carousel represented a new article, but the carousel displays every page of each article. Suddenly, a list of 20 saved articles has turned into a carousel of 200 pages, with no hint of the location of the article the reader wants to read, assuming he remembers saving it. Further, articles saved under the old version are in the carousel but do not refresh - that is, you see the title and a blank page. So a previously well functioning bookmark feature has been downgraded significantly. Further update May 20: Reduced my rating again. Since the Scrapbook function has been made less useful, I decided to resort to sending articles to Instapaper. Oddly, the Instapaper option does not appear in all issues of the magazine. But it doesn't matter because it turns out that this functionality, which existed in the previous version, no longer works. In addition, I had downgraded to the previous TLS app so that I could get rid of the carousel, but downloading the current issue seems to have put me back on the current version of the app. Further update June 19, 2015: I have emailed Support with my complaints and received not even an acknowledgement. There goes another star.
Review by Dead Write on The Times Literary Supplement.