Reviews for Lean Library
Lean Library by TfS Extensions
50 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by Bugejo, 3 years agoSince the update to Firefox 85.0 the extention slows down the browser considerably. Makes all tasks feel sluggish
Developer response
posted 3 years agoHello there
Thanks for your feedback and we are sorry to hear this.
In order to investigate this a bit more, we will need some more details. Please contact us at support@leanlibrary.com and we would be very happy to look into this and help resolve it for you.
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Clare - Rated 2 out of 5by fluffymitten, 3 years agoThis add on often overrides normal access to the most random websites, making it impossible to view some sites because the add-on forces me to visit a different site or just plain refuses to let me in. There should be a prompt to continue as a non-Institution user or use my institution's credentials. I've disabled the add-on as it interfered so badly with day to day browsing of news and research sites that I need for work rather than my studies.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoHello
We appreciate your feedback.
The pop-up settings are managed by your library but we understand this might be frustrating for you. To address this, on the Lean Library's extension page, please tick "Skip the popup and automate my access.", you will then stop seeing the pop-ups unless you click on our extension.
To increase the optimization for our users, we are currently working on an end-user dashboard, where you will be able customize your own pop-up settings and set your own preferences.
This is under development at the moment and we will release it soon so keep an eye out for an announcement about this!
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Clare - Rated 5 out of 5by Seprizal, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Rafael, 4 years agoThe extension creates pop-ups which are unnecessarily big and don't disappear automatically after some time.
Sometimes the pop-ups are useful when they provide a link to an alternative access site.
Most of the times, the pop up simply states that an article has been unlocked.
The pop-ups block a bit less than 1/4 of the web page, completely unnecessarily in either case.
It would be very much appreciated if this could be fixed since the extension works well otherwise.Developer response
posted 3 years agoHello Rafael
We appreciate your feedback.
The pop-up size is determined by the institute's logo size and it is managed by your library but we understand this might be frustrating for you. To address this, on the Lean Library's extension page, please tick "Skip the popup and automate my access.", you will then stop seeing the pop-ups unless you click on our extension.
To increase the optimization for our users, we are currently working on an end-user dashboard, where you will be able customize your own pop-up settings and set your own preferences.
This is under development at the moment and we will release it soon so keep an eye out for an announcement about this!
Best wishes
Clare - Rated 3 out of 5by Kensall, 4 years agoThis add on is a helpful tool for saving time when scouring google scholar. However there aren't any options to disable pop-ups. I'd like to disable the 'announcement' style pop ups which aren't giving me any new information.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoHello Kensall
We appreciate your feedback.
The pop-up settings are managed by your library but we understand this might be frustrating for you. To address this, on the Lean Library's extension page, please tick "Skip the popup and automate my access.", you will then stop seeing the pop-ups unless you click on our extension.
To increase the optimization for our users, we are currently working on an end-user dashboard, where you will be able customize your own pop-up settings and set your own preferences.
This is under development at the moment and we will release it soon so keep an eye out for an announcement about this!
Best wishes
Clare - Rated 4 out of 5by thieu, 4 years agoIdeal for doing research off-campus. Although I would like to use it on-demand so I can just click the extension icon when I need it. Now on a lot of web pages where I don't need the extension it shows a pop-up, which is quite annoying.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoHello there
We appreciate your feedback.
The pop-up settings are managed by your library but we understand this might be frustrating for you. To address this, on the Lean Library's extension page, please tick "Skip the popup and automate my access.", you will then stop seeing the pop-ups unless you click on our extension.
To increase the optimization for our users, we are currently working on an end-user dashboard, where you will be able customize your own pop-up settings and set your own preferences.
This is under development at the moment and we will release it soon so keep an eye out for an announcement about this!
Best wishes
Clare - Rated 1 out of 5by Eery, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Coolperson:-D, 4 years agoPlease explain why access to information within all windows and tabs are required by this extension.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoHello
Thanks for reaching out to us and we understand your concerns. With some of our core features (eBooks alternatives, article alternatives, highlight and search), our extension does require a few details to provide you with a seamless service.
In order to function, the extension needs to scrape the page for academic material IDs (like ISBN and DOI) and based on this information you getting redirected to a full text location. We can assure you, we do not collect any personal data and we also use highly advanced regular expressions when scraping the pages to make sure our extension only picks up DOIs and ISBNs.
You can find more information about our data privacy commitment on our website : https://www.leanlibrary.com/data-privacy/
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Clare - Rated 5 out of 5by draco, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Magdala, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Tizzytaz, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by YaBoiTea, 4 years agoPretty useful, at least a lot more so than my university's javascript thingy. My only problem is that it also does the pop up thing on wikipedia pages, which can be quite annoying.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoHello there
We appreciate your feedback and it is great to hear that you found our extension useful.
The pop-up settings are managed by your library but we understand this might be frustrating for you. To address this, on the Lean Library's extension page, please tick "Skip the popup and automate my access.", you will then stop seeing the pop-ups unless you click on our extension.
To increase the optimization for our users, we are currently working on an end-user dashboard, where you will be able customize your own pop-up settings and set your own preferences.
This is under development at the moment and we will release it soon so keep an eye out for an announcement about this!
Best wishes
Clare - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15531931, 4 years agoReally good module but I have one complain. Some of my own subscriptions (for newspapers) are supperior to the one my university provides. Could you implement a easy on/off switch or an exclusion list for certain websites? Keep up the good work!
Developer response
posted 4 years agoThank you so much for your feedback. This is on our roadmap and I'll record your request as another signal to help prioritise it appropriately. If you contact us at support@leanlibrary.com, we might be able to assist you to "work around" this behavior, or work with your library to improve the setup for all users at your institution! We look forward to hearing from you soon! - Rated 4 out of 5by Phil Adams, 5 years agoWe know that lots of requests are made for articles unavailable from the publishers, but included in library collections elsewhere. This extension helps people find the material that can access for free and so get on with their research.
- Rated 5 out of 5by rab, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by DJ Poldoc, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by mactopics, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13431073, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Aeolus, 5 years agoUnfortunately, this Add-on doesn’t have any iOS browser access. This is rather unfortunate, as most of by journal browsing is done on iOS devices. This renders the new access via Lean Library (versus ezyproxy) rather inadequate for my needs.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoDear Aeolus,
Thank you for reviewing Lean Library. iOS currently does not provide any means for browser extensions and thus we are unable to serve your needs. We are looking into creating an adequate solution for iOS and Android. Feel free to reach out to us at support@leanlibrary.com, if we can assist you!
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Claus - Rated 5 out of 5by Alex, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15308793, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by snkillerbeast, 5 years agoIt's so great that my library subscribed to this! Makes my life easy
- Rated 1 out of 5by Tracy, 5 years ago