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

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.

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.

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!

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.