The Times Literary Supplement

The Times Literary Supplement

By Times Media Limited (Apps)

  • Category: News
  • Release Date: 2012-11-01
  • Current Version: 6.2
  • Adult Rating: 12+
  • File Size: 26.27 MB
  • Developer: Times Media Limited (Apps)
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Score: 4.7019
4.7019
From 946 Ratings
Free On itunes

Description

A vibrant way of reading the TLS on your Apple device. With its combination of literary discoveries, incisive criticism, essays, poems and debate, the TLS is for anyone with an interest in the world of culture and ideas. In addition, you will find an easy search function, the weekly TLS podcast and full access to years of back issues. From fiction to philosophy, religion to politics, social studies to film: TLS readers can decipher, discuss and delve into it all. The TLS app is free to download and you can access the contents in the following ways: 1) If you subscribe to the TLS, simply log in by using your surname and your subscriber number. 2) You can buy individual issues for £2.99 or an auto-renewing subscription at £7.99pm from the iTunes store. Subscription renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of your current period, otherwise the account will be charged as normal. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal by going to Account Settings. Privacy Policy: http://www.newsprivacy.co.uk Terms of Use: the-tls.co.uk/terms-conditions

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Reviews

  • Do not let these people have your credit card number

    1
    By R. Uncle Pennybags
    The app is not very good but sort of works and the content of the magazine is not that bad. However, for a digital subscription, while you can easily sign up for a trial on their Web site, you can only discontinue the “trial” and avoid paying for a regular subscription by calling their call center, which does not make clear exactly when you may call. There is also an email address but all they are capable of doing is redirecting you to the call center. It’s obvious that the only reason for it to work this way is to make it inconvenient enough that you fail to cancel even if you do not wish to receive the subscription anymore. This sort of deceptive business practice ought to be illegal.

  • Not an improvement

    2
    By Touristan
    Completely new design, but you still keep having to re-login, just like before - have your subscriber number handy. The app defaults to highlights, rather than the edition you’re reading and your place in it. If you leave the app open to keep your place, it bounces up and down, I guess to show you what you were reading? Scrolling is jumpy sometimes. The TLS is great, but digital readers deserve a better experience.

  • Too big margins and no split view

    3
    By Jun Chen in May
    I’m using iPad mini 6 for daily reading bz it’s light and compact. TLS on iPad mini 6 makes reading a struggle rather than an enjoyment. Apart from the two problems mentioned in the title, the typeface is either too small which forces my eyes to squint and stare at the screen or way too big which makes a huge wasted screen area and forces me to constantly slide my thumb. It‘s a tiring and painful to use the app despite the content of TLS is really great！

  • Great content

    5
    By AllanDiBiase
    Diversity and quality.

  • Aggravating password system

    1
    By Smothert
    I use the app when I travel, and like to download issues before I go. The app frequently denies access, won’t let my password app supply the user/password, doesn’t like the password, etc. I understand the need to protect intellectual property. But if you can’t make access closer to the experience of picking up the paper and beginning to read, there’s no point in a digital subscription, and it’ll be easier just to throw a few issues in the checked luggage.

  • Terrible app, TLS REFUSES TO FIX

    1
    By Youitry
    Fails every to authorize my valid sibscription every month. TLS refuses to fix, tells me to use web version, not iPad app. I’ve given up on TLS and canceled my sub.

  • Sanity in a sad, sick world

    5
    By SRosenman
    Need TLS more than ever as a place of refuge Have been subscribing since 1988 and ever since then my cocktail party chatter has glittered as strangers flock around me to listen to me hold forth as I regurgitate all that I have read that week

  • Drop off

    5
    By Gatsby1114
    I open the app to an issue, and it keeps closing. Not amused.

  • Time Sink!

    5
    By Paul Bove
    Cannot use this app from day to day without refilling subscription information each and every time. Search for info, copy and paste, hit ok, read—for a bit—repeat endlessly. ——————— Update: does anyone understand why they see the need constantly to login as a desirable feature? What does it to for them? In my best moment, I realize I should cancel and read via library subscriptions online.

  • Authorisation Failed

    1
    By Levo Dextro
    I can no longer access my subscription. I get an "authorisation failed" message. This has been going on for 2 weeks. ——————— A year or two has passed since I wrote the above ... I decided to try the subscription again. It worked well for a few weeks. Then today, it crashes everytime I try to read an article. Eventually the TLS will catch up with the technology of the 1990s and provide an adequate app for reading. But they will have spent YEARS damaging their reputation and readership by tolerating their (fantastic!) content to be distributed through such flawed, thoroughly crappy apps. TLS was a giant of the print world. It is awful that such a wonderful newspaper couldn’t find a successful way to digitize after decades of trying. They were titans, and I have always loved the writing. But, they are complete digital idiots.

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