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3 stars
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Posted: Jun 24, 2023

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First know that my 3 taco rating might mean that people (like me) do not see this as an easy tool to use. 5 Tacos (to me) means that it is EVERYTHING you expect it to be based on the advertisements and statements made on behalf of the product. So here is why it EARNED 3 tacos.
+1. It is a tool that allows you access to publishing "stories."
+2. There is a possibility that all features listed is able to be accessed and utilized to work as expected.
+3. The documents available shows that there may be an ease for the development of a short story without much need for ALL tools.
Why not 4 tacos?
-4. *Nowhere did it say that it would be difficult to publish in EPUB. They offer a reader to download to read your "stories" organically. :(
-5. **Some, if basic, knowledge of CODE is required. The whole idea is that you don't need to know code to make perfectly awesome--audiobooks, interactive text, etc. :(

*I expected that I could upload my story to EPUB easily. (I can not.) In fact, since I could not create what I had envisioned with this tool, I used one of their "samples". It was an interactive children's book (! I was drooling at the possibility of making my children's book interactive...yeah!). I would consider it "well done." However, when I went to publish it, I found out that I didn't have the right macbook (I would have to upgrade to 13 to utilize the software that would require its facilitation). Otherwise I would have to publish everything in their FREE Pub READER!!! NOOOO! I do not want to have to have another reader app--Amazon, Google, Apple, etc. too many out there already!

**This is a perfectly great tool if you don't mind spending a good amount of time getting onboarded. Their several videos (offered in English and Italian at this time) only make clear the very basic usage, which most of us could just use a website and other tools sold here on AppSumo for which are much less labor intensive.

To give them a 5 Taco rating, they would have to make clear these two things. THEN, and only then, are they ABSOLUTELY 100% right on!

KNOW: I usually only write when I am very happy, asked to with some free offering. If I'm not very pleased, I just get a refund. However, since I was OVER THE MOON with the thought I could use this as stated above, I just felt others like me could save time if they choose to read this review. It would have saved me time (if not money since I will be receiving a full refund upon clicking "submit review." :(

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Angelo_PubCoder

May 9, 2024

Hi, I do not understand what you mean on point 4. There are no special requirements to export EPUB files. https://docs.pubcoder.com/pubcoder_epub.html
PubReader and Shelf, instead, read XPUB files which is a different export format.

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