Bookshare Reader

Benetech

About this app

Get the official Bookshare Reader app. Access millions of ebooks from Bookshare, the world's largest library of ebooks for people with reading barriers like dyslexia, blindness, low vision, and physical disabilities. Listen to books in high quality audio and customize your reading experience in ways that work for you. Read bestsellers, new releases, textbooks and educational books, children’s books, young adult, mysteries, biographies, and more. Read your way with these customizable features:

• Listen to books in high quality audio
• Adjust reading speed, font size, and colors
• Follow along with highlighted text
• Navigate by page and chapter
• Stop reading and pick up from your last spot
• Download books and read offline

To use Bookshare Reader, you must have a Bookshare membership. Learn more by visiting the Bookshare website.

Ratings and reviews

For me the point of this app is to listen to the book, instead of visually reading the words. Normally, that would be great, but the voices that come with this app (there are 5 or 6) are all slight variations on the same thing. And the main problem w/the voices are that they are super dooper, uber creepy. Evie is an app that uses beautiful artificial voices. I can't get bookshare to work with Evie, but if I could....they can create lovely, pleasant to listen to voices, why can't these people?

This is a great app and once you get used the voice listening is great. I did notice though that after the last update it allows my screen to shut down and it stops reading- which i don't like. I also would like to see if a timer could be added so that I can set it and not worry about it going through a whole book if I fall asleep- I like to "read" at bed time.

Huge step backwards from Go Read app. This does not feel like a "1.02" release, but rather a pre release or testing release. There is no search within book, no page turning, only scroll. Bookmarks say "coming soon". The "search for a great book" is only a title search. The only thing I found so far that it can do that Go Read can not is changing reading speed without having to change system reading speed. That is nice. But for me, this is not ready for actual use yet.

What’s new

- Optimized the layout of list and grid views for My Library.
- Updated the filtering experience for My Library.
- Improved screen reader accessibility for My Library.
- Changing languages crash fix.
- Improved error handling to support a more reliable performance.