Kortext ebooks & etextbooks

Kortext

About this app

Kortext provides access to online and offline eBooks from multiple publishers, with enhanced in-built audio and video content, combined with tools to assist learners and academics to make the most of the content.
Features include:
- Easy navigation to content, providing quick access to pages
- Highlight extracts in a range of colours, enabling quick reference of key sections
- Add notes to content and share via email or OneNote, allowing notes from different books to be collated in one area
- Add a reference (Harvard or APA), making creation of bibliographies much easier
- Read Aloud sections, providing help with accessing content
- Increase text size, making it easier to view content

Ratings and reviews

The app works how it wants when it wants. the highlight feature stops working for groups of words and only allows single words. The read aloud feature shows options but when you change voices and settings it might choose to take the pitch change or the speed change or none or it will remain the same as before. The app will lock up randomly while using so you have to force close and restart your reading. There's more but I need to study. At least I can read it.

I utilize digital copies of books for school so I can listen to them, Kortext has been the least user friendly platform I have been forced to use. It doesn't read half of what's on the page, it skips around the page or just flat out doesn't read anything. I'm extremely frustrated that I have to use this platform for the next five months to finish out my semester. I do not recommend this app to anyone. The website is only better by a smidge, but even that struggles on the regular.

The app is nice and I especially enjoy the read aloud feature. However, the voices could use a few more choices, the way they pick up following paragraph or headline to it as though it's part of the end of the previous context is distracting. Additionally, the fact that the page completly reverts to the library of books when you click on a glossary word is frustrating. You can't get back to the page you were on with the back button

What’s new

Bugs fixes and improvements.