Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource

Elsevier Inc

About this app

Use Elsevier eBooks on VitalSource® to download and access Elsevier eTextbooks on your Android powered phone or tablet. Read your books online or offline, search across your full library, and create notes and highlights to help you study.

Elsevier eBooks features:
• Download eTextbooks to your Android device for easy online or offline reading.
• Simple, user-friendly navigation and a clean reading experience.
• Search inside your current book or across your full library.
• Select text to create notes or highlights from your mobile device.
• Review flashcards to quiz yourself on key concepts.
• Tap to open figures, view captions, and pinch to zoom.
• Sync your last page read and all of your notes and highlights between your Android device and our desktop or web-based Elsevier eBooks apps.

Ratings and reviews

I had to create an account through vital source, even though I already have one through elsevier, which was annoying but not near as difficult as their live chat help. A useless feature since it was not helpful. Once I finally got signed up and logged in, I was unable to find my book, or any book for that matter. I tried typing in the title any which way, I tried the authors, I even tried just the word "nursing" expecting to sift through dozens of random books, and nothing. This app is useless.

Good for on the go. Major downside = any tables or figures in textbooks can't be seen because they're so small. App doesn't allow you to zoom in. I think this needs to be fixed especially for medical textbooks like the ones I have where there's many diagrams, pictures, or tables/figures with pertinent information to know and understand. Increasing font size doesn't fix this either.

I found the sign in hack! If you already have an online Elsevier account registered with email and password, make sure you know it thoroughly and that it is correct, if not reset pw. Then open up App and proceed to "create account" instead of signing in with the exact email and password that you've originally registered with. This method had helped me login successfully after many failed attempts of trying to do "basic login and pw" initially by default. Rating is for sign in difficulty.

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.