Hive Reader
Hive.co.uk are delighted to introduce the Hive Reader app, a fantastic way to read your ePUB and PDF eBooks.
The Hive Reader app was designed with you, the reader, in mind. Nothing gets in between you and the words on screen. Bookmarks, annotations and highlighting are all accessible with a tap. User configurable settings include font size, brightness, page margins, night mode and more! You can even edit the metadata of titles in your library. The Hive Reader app works brilliantly in conjunction with…
HIVE.CO.UK
Hive.co.uk is a new and unique website where you can buy millions of books, eBooks (ePUB & PDF), DVDs, Blu-ray, music CDs and stationery, with all of the features you'd expect from any major online retailer including promotions, charts, recommendations, powerful search engine and secure shopping.
WHY IS HIVE UNIQUE?
If you enjoy the convenience of online shopping but would like to support your local independent shops too, then thanks to Hive you can now do both! Unlike the majority of online retailers, Hive works with local independent high street shops helping them have a bigger presence online, and has over 360 independent high street shops associated known as the 'Hive Network'. Every Hive Network shop has its own home page on the site and whenever a sale is made on Hive, one of these independent shops receives a percentage of the sale!
You can search for local Hive Network shops near to you by using the site's inbuilt 'store locator'. Once you've found the shop you like the look of, click through to their home page where you can find out what's going on in-store, their latest news, opening times, contact details, product recommendations and more. Select the shop as your 'favourite', and from that moment on they will always benefit financially from any purchase you make. (If you don't choose, we'll automatically give it to the shop that's geographically nearest to you). Your favourite shop will appear on the Hive home page when you log in, allowing you quick access to their page.
Also if you're not always at home for deliveries, for added convenience you can collect any orders made on Hive from your local Hive Network shop for FREE! And whilst you’re there you can remind yourself of what great places independent shops are (and why we're so keen for them to stay on our high streets!)
To find out more about this great new way to buy your entertainment products online visit www.hive.co.uk
You'll also find us on Facebook (facebook.com/hivestores) and Twitter (@hivestores), and you can sign up to our email newsletter from the website.
We very much hope to see you soon!
Category : Books & Reference
Reviews (11)
I have wasted £10 and 2 hours trying to use the app. You have to use an adobe ID to use the app but I cannot get the app to use either the ID I used for Hive or Adobe. I am not able to get at the book I purchased. It is slow very hard to use and self - congratulatory, give it a miss.
Hate this app. Taken me ages to download, log in twice, be referred to a crap website... Only to find that the boom I paid lots for has apparently expired!
Don't do it the whole process was a real struggle
Firstly, the app works fine: both of my initial ebook purchases downloaded without hassle and I am reading them happily on my Android phone. You may have to set up an Adobe ID as well as your Hive login but there are clear instructions on The Hive site about how to get going with Hive Reader. Next, The Hive is usually as cheap as Amazon for ebooks. However The Hive give some profits to local independent book shops. They also pay their share of UK tax. No brainer really. It's The Hive all the way.
Really difficult to use and a poorly designed reader.
Why does every vendor of DRM'd ebooks insist you clog your device up with yet *another* reader, because they won't cooperate with anyone else's DRM handling? It's a waste of space and time that is strangling ebooks.
I opened a book and for reading it probably would be ok but annotating takes too long and there is no clear explanation or tutorial to show you how it works.
I hate to knock Hive who do a great job in providing an alternative to Amazon but this reader is quite simply terrible. It is so bad that I uninstalled it and have resigned myself to never reading the book. No ability to sync across devices, unresponsive, awful user interface… there is literally *nothing* good about this app except it was easy to uninstall.
Simple and easy to read and download ebooks bought from hive.co.uk. Works a treat on my samsung tablet.
Too complicated for a simple book app. Why login just to browse?
Had to use this to read one book I bought. But it's a terrible reader and it linked up with chrome and I can't unlink them. Buying the book I wanted was a real struggle as well these people deliver an awful service. If only somewhere else had sold the same book as an ebook.