Bookshelf

Vital Source Technologies

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+

Ratings and reviews

I was hesitant about eBooks, but I'm thrilled with Bookshelf. It's user-friendly, allows note-taking, and highlighting with multiple colors. You can change the background to sepia and adjust text spacing. Creating flashcards and sorting them by familiarity is great. It also reads the text aloud at adjustable speeds. The features are amazing—I wish all my eBooks were on this app. Love, love, love it! The only downside is the sound of the voice text.

Very handy for school on the go! Love all the features, especially the Read Aloud capability. Even though it's a computer voice and it reads literally everything on a page including photo citations - that part could be improved. But hey, I'm grateful for this capability that I can Read by the pool or listen on my commute, very convenient!

This app provides a terrible experience on a phone-- It is unusable on a small device. You cannot adjust the text size. You can do something like a zoom but the virtual pages float around inexplicably, jumping erratically. It's impossible to scroll or page through a book. Compared with something like Amazon's kindle app, it's appallingly bad.

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.