NetGalley Shelf

NetGalley LLC

About this app

NetGalley Shelf is a reading and listening app for NetGalley members. NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies and audiobooks to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley community to discover, request, read, and review.

NetGalley does not sell any content, including books or audiobooks. Each book on NetGalley is provided to specific members by the publisher directly, at no cost to the NetGalley member. Books on the NetGalley site are used for review and promotional purposes only.

Users of the NetGalley Shelf app will need to register as NetGalley members on NetGalley.com or NetGalley.co.uk, then all your approved NetGalley books and audiobooks will automatically appear in this app. No need to press Download on the NetGalley website!

Reading is easy and convenient using the NetGalley Shelf app. Download approved books for access on the go, or start listening right away with streaming for audiobooks.

Ratings and reviews

As someone who primarily consumes audiobooks, I'm immediately taken aback that I can't customize the audio speed beyond the 0.25 presets (eg. 0.75x, 1.0x, 1.25x, etc). I'm someone who vacillates between 1.0-1.25, usually 1.10 and 1.15, so 1.25 is a little too fast on average. Since audiobooks are becoming increasingly more popular, there is a distinct advantage to catering to a more nuanced experience for reviewers. I'd love to see this updated for more audio speed control, please!

The app is a great idea, the execution is not. Audiobooks just don't download. There is no option to change text size so reading PDFs can be a real chore. One book I read that was in an ebook sort of format, the end of the sentences went off the page. Now all the books on my shelf have disappeared from the app even though on my account they are still there. Edit: updated to three stars due to speedy support response and problem is resolved

This is painful It was bad enough when it was jumping chapters. Now it simply won't work at all. The app is so basic. Doesn't maintain your playback speed of choice. Stops mid sentence for no apparent reason. Chapters aren't differentiated in any way, so you have no clue which chapter you're listening to. Takes forever to download a book and usually more than 1 attempt. Downloaded book seems to use an enormous amount of storage. Hopeless

What’s new

Small improvements and bug fixes