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I have already accumulated 200+ free reading days and almost 200 free books, after only two months of using this app and not spending a single cent. I love how it incentivizes reading by giving out free memberships days and free books - I feel like no other reading app is doing that. Technically you never really have to pay a penny unless you really want to read the paid-membership-books - but sometimes they give you those books for free too. I read extremely fast but I’m always getting free books faster than I can read them. They must be doing something right to give so many freebies out while still making a profit.

This is the best reading app I have ever used. It is attached with WeChat so we could see other friends’ readings and share our point of views. It is kind of cool to have the reading rewards points and buy books with the points! I also enjoyed reading with this app in three ways. First, it provides different background colors for your preferences. Second, it encourages you to build up your reading habits. Third, books are up to date and well organized. Highly recommended for reading lovers!

I’ve been using it for long time and had enjoyed reading and listening while driving. But with the latest few updates, books had gone through heavy censorship. Characters are replaced by *s for some ridiculous reasons. For example, in Frank Kafka’s Castle(Chinese version), one sentence was read like the following “眼睛眉**刻不停地看着发生的一切”. It’s easy for Chinese people to understand what’s going on. The first character marked by * is “毛”, together with the character ahead it, “眉毛” means eyebrows and the second is “片”，together with the next character ”片刻” means moment．This should be the way and the only way to read it. However if a dumb people just falls in love only with these two censored characters, their meaning is adult video. To eliminate such a ridiculous possibility they have to be sacrificed. I’m not sure if this is violation of copyright but definitely a shame to Tecent.