The Palace Project

Lyrasis

About this app

Palace is a free, easy-to-use e-reader app that lets you find, check out, and read or listen to books from your local library.

It’s been said that libraries are “palaces for the people” and the Palace app gives you instant access to your local “palace” any time, right from the palm of your hand.

All you need to sign up is your library card! And even if your library isn’t using Palace yet, you can still read more than 10,000 books--from children’s books to classics to foreign language books--for free from our Palace Bookshelf.

The Palace app is built and maintained by The Palace Project, a not-for-profit division of LYRASIS working in partnership with Digital Public Library of America with funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. For more, visit https://thepalaceproject.org.

Ratings and reviews

I've been using this to read short ebooks and my experience so far has been good. It's quick to download the book and pick back up from where you left off. It's very convenient for reading on the go. Im not sure if I just haven't figured out the search functions out yet, but I hope it gets expanded upon to make search results more refined.

Buggy as all heck. I have a pixel 7a. The interface of the catalog was clear and useable however the ability to access the item after checking out and listening /reading is wanting. I went back and found that the program produces a blank page with a grey featureless rectangle when I tried going back the next day. Despite deleting the app and then redownloading --going back in the grey rectangle remains and I cannot access my audio book.

Anything from the Axis360 distributor returns an error, which is a ton of the good content for kids. Like, everything I wanted. Also the search function should use some work, a keyword only search with no filters gives a lot of irrelevant results to wade through. Edit: looks like the Axis360 problem was a temporary outage, review adjusted accordingly

What's new

* Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the app to display a blank screen after resuming from the background.
* Fixed a bug that sometimes caused reading position to reset to the beginning of a chapter.

For the full list of changes in this release, visit https://github.com/ThePalaceProject/android-core/releases/tag/palace-1.11.2.