Have you upgraded to the latest BARD app?
Have you gone into its settings and enabled the Siri shortcuts?
They seem to work for me the little testing I've done.
You can drop bookmarks much like Voice Dream Reader.
I'm not sure I would use anaudio book for' studying if I could get a text version to use with Voice Dream Reader where you can highlight passages, and write notes with the highlights.
Then, export them as a text file.
But I do not find BARD clunky for general reading at all.
Richard, USA
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Okay folks! May be if I can use Siri shortcuts with bard mobile, I will be able to use it more efficiently. I know you can use siri shortcuts but it never worked for me in the Bard app. I will appreciate if some of you share your experience with siri shortcuts to Bard app. The rest of this email is again my opinion and i understand some of you feel differently than the following. With due respect to people who are happy with Bard app, the efficiency of the app seems to be a matter of subjective opinion but I think it can be objectively established that Bard mobile is clunky. I don’t find Bard mobile easy to use. I have listened to audio books using VDR and find the experience much better. May be Bard is okay for pleasure reading where you play books in the background without having to interact with the playback. If you are studying, not just reading, NLS bard has a lot to improve. Sent from my iPhoneOn Nov 22, 2025, at 1:21 AM, Kendra Schaber <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all!
The thing with the BARD app is that it’s actually one of the better book reading apps that I know of that’s out there. I’ve had very few issues with it and mind you, I’ve used it ever since it was published in 2013. I have very few issues with NLS products in general with a few acceptions which are BARD Express for Windows, which I personally don’t like because I’ve had nothing but problems with that app and the rare bug on the Humanwhare Ereader that I’ve had ever since the latest update came out which is that it won’t refresh the wishlist on the Humanwhare Ereader itself and it also won’t refresh the Bookshare’s Most Recently Downloaded list. When they transferred to the cloud storage, I ran into my share of connectivity issues, but they have gotten a lot better over the last few years. The rest has been a very smooth experience. I’ll add that I can’t yet speak to the new digital players because I’m still waiting for my own to arrive and it should show up at my house any day now. As for the app itself, I've have always enjoyed it a lot apart for the times when I’ve experienced poor connectivity bugs, but they’re totally gone now. I have always loved the BARD app itself. I’m glad they added in the search feature because it totally makes up for the time when they took away their web browser a while back. Speaking of searching, their general search engine has improved a lot over the years. I also like the new BARD.2 website as well. I just wish they would give BARD Express a make over!!!!
Kendra
On Nov 21, 2025, at 7:30 PM, Manan Trivedi <[email protected]> wrote:
I don’t hear much by way complaints regarding Bard mobile app. Is it because people don’t expect anything better from NLS? Despite so much of tax payers’ money, Humanware has designed an app that does not work as efficiently as a good app should. Compare the experience of playing an audio book on voice dream reader versus on NLS bard. That will explain my point. The navigation is so much smoother on VDR .
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