NetGalley Shelf

NetGalley

About this app

NetGalley Shelf is a reading and listening app for NetGalley members. NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies and audiobooks to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley community to discover, request, read, and review.

NetGalley does not sell any content, including books or audiobooks. Each book on NetGalley is provided to specific members by the publisher directly, at no cost to the NetGalley member. Books on the NetGalley site are used for review and promotional purposes only.

Users of the NetGalley Shelf app will need to register as NetGalley members on NetGalley.com or NetGalley.co.uk, then all your approved NetGalley books and audiobooks will automatically appear in this app. No need to press Download on the NetGalley website!

Reading is easy and convenient using the NetGalley Shelf app. Download approved books for access on the go, or start listening right away with streaming for audiobooks.

Ratings and reviews

I love this app, in a way. I love how it connects readers/reviewers directly to authors in a fun way. However, this app needs a complete rework from the inside. I haven't been able to listen to the audio books for almost a year now. They constantly pause and stutter, even if I've downloaded them. Which makes it really annoying for me because my feedback ratio tanks because of that. Please fix this, I miss my audio books.

I have to open the app to play the audiobook if I have paused it for longer than 10 seconds. Since the start of 2024, I've had issues when playing my audiobooks. Upon opening the app and clicking on my current audiobook, it will restart the book back to 0%. It's done this at 16%, 53.1%, 87% read, and it's extremely frustrating because now I have to keep track of what chapter I'm on... Please fix!

I use five different apps to listen to audiobooks, but this one is used specifically to listen to Advanced Reader Copy audiobooks. Here's a few reasons I find this app truly frustraing... If I pause my book for longer, I can't just hit play to start it back up; I have to go back and reopen the book. Books I have downloaded frequently disappear from my shelf making it impossible for me to listen and review the books I've commited to reviewing. The speed settings are extremely limited.

What's new

Small improvements and bug fixes