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This was my favorite app for 5+ years. I travel regularly and used it to study during long flights with unreliable internet. Recently they changed something so your login times out faster. So even if you download content, it quits working an hour into my flight. It quit working during 8 of my trips this month. I’m going to have to switch back to paper books.