Bookshare Reader

Benetech

About this app

Get the official Bookshare Reader app. Access millions of ebooks from Bookshare, the world's largest library of ebooks for people with reading barriers like dyslexia, blindness, low vision, and physical disabilities. Listen to books in high quality audio and customize your reading experience in ways that work for you. Read bestsellers, new releases, textbooks and educational books, children’s books, young adult, mysteries, biographies, and more. Read your way with these customizable features:

• Listen to books in high quality audio
• Adjust reading speed, font size, and colors
• Follow along with highlighted text
• Navigate by page and chapter
• Stop reading and pick up from your last spot
• Download books and read offline

To use Bookshare Reader, you must have a Bookshare membership. Learn more by visiting the Bookshare website.

Ratings and reviews

Huge step backwards from Go Read app. This does not feel like a "1.02" release, but rather a pre release or testing release. There is no search within book, no page turning, only scroll. Bookmarks say "coming soon". The "search for a great book" is only a title search. The only thing I found so far that it can do that Go Read can not is changing reading speed without having to change system reading speed. That is nice. But for me, this is not ready for actual use yet.

Doesn't save your place when closing app. You have to scroll up and down to find place. Voice kept stopping when I tried using it. It definitely has potential. I like the opening interface displaying my books. I couldn't figure out how to remove a book from my list when I finished it.

Very disappointed. The visual display of the book puts in huge spaces between words, as if it is trying to justify the text on a line to take up the entire line, making it difficult to read. Sent an email to the tech support with screenshots; no answer so far. Will update if/when I hear anything back.

What's new

Bug fixes