GALATEA: Novels & Audiobooks 17+

This is a killer!! Firstly, the stories are good - I have been searching for a great read at my local library but can’t find exactly what I want... but here on Galatea it just seems to be my style! Problem is, you read a (very short) chapter, then have a minimum of 3 hours before the next chapter is released. There’s the option to pay for a 3 month or annual subscription- annual being $100... I would love to be able to read these books without the dreaded wait, but simply can’t afford it 😣
The other option to help out those broke like me is like a point system which is great - work up to 10 points and you get to unlock another (addictive) chapter. Now here comes my biggest gripe.... ready??
There is a ‘day streak’ - a point per day, then if you get to 7 days, you get 5 much sort after points. So far, twice now, my ‘streak’ has gotten to day 5 and reset back to day 1 - even though I have logged in and read multiple chapters throughout the day - every single day single installing!! Why does it never get to day 7 and give me the 5 points?!!!!! Not happy 😔
I understand there are bills and people to pay, but I can only just imagine that if there was a flash 48hr half price annual subscription sale, the app would make SO much more money with customers taking up the deal, rather than all of us just waiting out the waiting time for the next chapter... everyone loves a sale, almost as much as they are loving these books 😉

Don’t get me wrong…I love the stories. I don’t even mind having to wait 6 hours for another chapter. I don’t even mind the short chapters. The immersive sounds don’t even count, I usually turn it off. It’s distracting.

How do you immerse yourself in a story that you’d have to edit first? I want to read a book not edit it. Every time I read, I’d have to edit the sentences in my head before I can understand anything in a 1 paragraph chapter. Allowing a book to be in a “published” state with errors like having 2 connecting words next to each other is a no-no. Or using words incorrectly like bear (meaning carry) instead of bare (meaning naked) is shameful. How do you call yourselves a “book” app is beyond me. One (1) read through would have revealed errors that a spellchecker and grammar checker would have ignored or bypassed.

Asking readers to pay for something that you (Galatea/Inkitt) would have just uploaded from the authors without so much as a read through is just appalling. And you expect to be paid for this?!?

Galatea app is great for bookworms and has audiobooks aswell. You can get a membership that allows you to access any books you want without waiting or you can buy points if you don’t want to wait 5 hours for a chapter. I think with the membership it should offer monthly at a cheaper price for those who can’t afford $100 straight up or maybe a two week free trial to test it out for those we actually want to have a membership but can’t afford it fully but maybe the trail will really push people to get a membership - once they have a taste to all the free access they’ll want it more 🤔 Also the five hour wait between chapters really isn’t ideal, maybe lower it to 2 hours because I personally hate waiting five hours to read a tiny chapter that is barely a full page so I’ll go on another book app to read something else and end up forgetting about Galatea until I get a notification but by that point I’m already half way through another book that I can’t be bothered switching over to again read one tiny chapter. Chapters are to small! They aren’t really chapters more like half a page or less depending on what book you read. That’s a big issue if I’m spending money on points and only get half a page or less for my points that I spent real money on 🤦‍♀️ Besides those three things the app is great.