For the past few days, when I try to login to the iOS app or the web app, I am redirected to a “Sign in & Register” page that notes that one can use institutional credentials if their institution has a site license (which mine does not), yet, it will only accept institutional credentials: I am unable to login via my account credentials (i.e. The app is great-but as of late, I can’t use it. Maybe one day.but it’s clear that day isn’t today or likely to come soon. Two, there was a true competitor (no, I do not consider Mendeley or Zotaro competitors) that would either push these developers or actually produce a product that treats us researchers like valued customers. It remains a far better product even though no development has happened for over a year. One, that the developer behind Papers never sold out. The developers appear to have no sense of urgency in making value-added updates and their product timeline for the desktop based app is nonexistent. So I don’t have complete confidence that if I make any notes, add comments, or alter meta tag details, it won’t work across all platforms.I guess what I don’t understand is that even though I pay an annual subscription for this service, I feel like I’m working with freeware. Or that I cannot rate an article at all on the iPad - I have to go to a web browser to do this. For instance, I may make changes to the metadata in one place (iPad) and its completely ignored on another (web). But it drives me nuts that this sync isn’t clean when it comes to accessing articles on the web and on an iDevice. I do like that my articles along with annotations sync to the cloud. As a former longtime Papers for Mac user, I’m frustrated by what could be a great product with ReadCube.
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