10 Answers2025-10-09
My experience was just okay but for a reason that I couldn’t get past to put the thing on hold temporarily. In a pleasant surprise, Novelpack’s customer support emails were super helpful and within a day they would cancel a subscription. Support@novelpack.com. Email from account email. Request for subscription cancellation. It works as a temporary fix until Novelpack figures this out and I wouldn’t have to spend multiple minutes going back and forth.
7 Answers2026-07-29
The update schedule for a GoodNovel story is core to how people read novels online today. The bulk of stories are updated daily, many on a fixed schedule, so for example a reader might know that a favorite story is updated every night at 8pm. This creates a reading routine around the updates and habituates the reader to read GoodNovels online within their existing daily routines.
This is similar to how we experience daily newspaper comic strips or nightly TV soap operas. The comfort of knowing exactly when more of the story will be delivered even when you are reading for free with daily passes to read as much as you like, means you open up the GoodNovel app at exactly the same time every day to read the next installment of your favorite story. Habitual engagement with the platform where you read for free with daily passes to read as much as you like, to see the promotions for other stories, to sample other stories and to potentially buy them later, is far more valuable to the platform than a binge-read some time in the future.
7 Answers2025-10-10
Using the 'Report a Problem' link on the Apple App Store / Google Play receipt for the app has worked for others in getting a cancellation / refund investigated. I had to do this with another app that made cancellation impossible, and Apple sorted out the refund and cancellation for me. Reporting that an app's practices are deceptive (to make cancellation difficult) is within the app stores' terms and thus a valid thing to complain about if the usual methods of cancellation fail in an undesirable way. It's a more nuclear option, but might be worth trying if usual methods fail.
5 Answers2025-10-10
A rather confused paperback purist, here. I thought I'd give digital a try. So I have to pay a monthly subscription fee to read chapters, and I don't even get to own what I'm reading. Occasionally, the latest chapters are an extra charge on top of the subscription fee to read them. Is that really how this works? I'm having a bit of trouble getting my head around this. The books on my bookshelf don't ask for a subscription fee to read a book I've bought in paperback. It's clearly a very complicated library with lots of fine print.
4 Answers2025-05-19
I found this on Reddit (unexpected source of books for me). r/FreeEBOOKS is a constantly updating list of free Amazon books and others. I follow that subreddit and every now and then I download a book that catches my eye when it shows up at the top of my feed. It’s a firehose of content, but there are a lot of great books in there, too. I now have hundreds of books on my Kindle that I never would have found on my own.
6 Answers2025-07-08
Converting mobis to EPUB in a batch is also very psychologically rewarding. The large folder full of technical debt just looks so bad. But once everything is converted to EPUB, you have a very modern and unified e-book library. You can then read your e-books with any e-book reader, send them to friends and even edit them (if necessary) in your favorite text editor. It’s a big one-time hassle to set everything up for batch conversion, but then you have forever of e-book accessibility. I set up conversion for my whole library about two years ago and since then I haven’t given e-book file formats a second thought. It’s very liberating.
4 Answers2025-05-12
Yes, VitalSource offers free trials for many of their novels. For example, I tried out ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’ by Casey McQuiston through a VitalSource trial. The way the trial worked for me was that I got to read the beginning of the book (about 1/3 or so), and then I could decide whether or not I wanted to continue with the full book.
Trials are useful to test drive new authors and genres before you purchase them and VitalSource has done a good job of offering trials for many of their novels even if not all. I would recommend checking out the list of available e-books to see what is currently on offer.
7 Answers2025-08-12
For those who are technically inclined, setting up Calibre with relevant plugins can transform ebook management to create a single source of truth for all downloaded books, regardless of whether they were purchased, borrowed from a library or downloaded from the web for free. Once set up, converting between formats, editing book metadata, fetching missing book covers and sending ebooks to reading devices is a doddle. Paired with legal sources, it’s also a means of building a pristine, personal digital library. While initial setup has its learning curve, for serious digital readers, the end result is well worth the while.
9 Answers2025-10-07
Just lurking here. Looks like a lot of work to borrow e-books. The free e-books from my local library through their ebook app are fine by me!
10 Answers2025-10-10
If you’re used to reading free fan translations hosted on aggregator websites then everything will seem incredibly expensive. The cost of reading on WebNovel is for the convenience, the stability, and the author. Most of the time it’s worth it, but sometimes it’s not. The official translations are typically much better quality and you can expect regular updates at set times. This structure is what you are paying for. But the cost can quickly add up. WebNovel does not have a monthly cap, unlike how you might subscribe to an author on Patreon for a set amount per month. On WebNovel you pay for each portion of the novel as it is released, and authors can be very prolific.