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

App works fine but would be nice if it would remember my place in a textbook when bouncing from web to app. I swap depending on where I'm at during the day. More importantly, would like the "Read Aloud" feature to use my phones saved TTS voice data at the very least. The default is too robotic and outdated. AI is capable of matching tone inflection and better handling of punctuation which would make it easier to follow along when using read aloud. offline reading works but sometimes won't load

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

This update brings a set of quality‑of‑life improvements

• New vertical PDF scroll mode - You can now swipe up to move to the next page or down to go back.

• Double‑tap to reset zoom - Quickly snap your PDF back to its original size with a double‑tap.

• Updated menus - The Book menu and My Files menu now use a modern bottom‑drawer design for easier access and cleaner navigation.

• General Improvements - Tuning and UI refinements to make the app feel faster, smoother, and more reliable.