Bookshelf
2.3star
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About this app
With Bookshelf, you can enjoy a digital-first, comprehensive study experience from the convenience of your Android phone or tablet. Access all of your VitalSource textbooks and study anytime, anywhere.
Bookshelf Features:
• Download books to your Android device for 100% offline reading.
• Customize highlighters and add notes for a rich study experience.
• Create flashcards with text and images to learn concepts faster.
• Personalize font, font size, and background colors to make reading easier.
• Listen to your books and learn on the go with Read Aloud.
• Sync your current reading position and all your work across devices so you can easily pick up where you left off.
• Built with accessibility in mind.
Requirements:
• VitalSource Bookshelf account
• Access to one or more VitalSource textbooks.
• Android 5.0+
Bookshelf Features:
• Download books to your Android device for 100% offline reading.
• Customize highlighters and add notes for a rich study experience.
• Create flashcards with text and images to learn concepts faster.
• Personalize font, font size, and background colors to make reading easier.
• Listen to your books and learn on the go with Read Aloud.
• Sync your current reading position and all your work across devices so you can easily pick up where you left off.
• Built with accessibility in mind.
Requirements:
• VitalSource Bookshelf account
• Access to one or more VitalSource textbooks.
• Android 5.0+
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Ratings and reviews
2.2
12.5K reviews
A Google user
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November 6, 2019
Terrible. Cluttered UI and completely unintuitive in use. I was recommended to use this by my university, but I'm switching to an alternative now. Once again: TERRIBLE | Edit: 'we'd like to get into contact with you to look into the issue'. How about no. If you can't identify these glaring issues without my input, I don't think there's any hope for this app anyway. This response is allready taking up more energy than I find reasonable so just review the product and figure it out for yourselves.
5 people found this review helpful
Vital Source Technologies
November 5, 2019
Thank you for your review. We apologize for the issues you are having with Bookshelf. We’d like to look into this issue for you. Would you please email us at, [email protected], and include the book, device, and version of Android you are running?
Jayde Taylor
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October 23, 2024
The audio feautre has improved, but it is still off in pronunciation and reads off punctuation and references. Reader does play when the app is not open, but will randomly stop. The app used to have a feature where you could pause the audio without unlocking your device, but this has since disappeared. You now have to open the app to stop or start audio.
33 people found this review helpful
Juan Ramos
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October 7, 2024
Pros: text to speech. Con: The biggest frustration I have with this app is the chapter selection on the table of contents. Example: I select chapter 14, and it goes to 13. I try again and it keeps going to 13. It takes several tries to get to the right chapter, or I have to give up and scroll through the pages.
2 people found this review helpful
What’s new
• Adds single and double page navigation to ePub books.
• Updated reader preferences interface that enables users to make smaller changes in text size.
• Accessibility fixes.
• Other miscellaneous bug fixes.
• Updated reader preferences interface that enables users to make smaller changes in text size.
• Accessibility fixes.
• Other miscellaneous bug fixes.
