The Palace Project
2.5star
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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.
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.
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Ratings and reviews
2.4
35 reviews
spencer parker
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December 5, 2023
Well, there are reviews dating back months about how audiobooks can not be played. I regret to inform you that I downloaded the app for the first time today, and audiobooks give an error message that they can not be played. No reason, no troubleshooting. I only use audiobooks unless I'm reading a graphic novel, so... the app is useless to me.
1 person found this review helpful
A.M. Lynn
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October 5, 2023
I was interested in the Banned Book Club, the only collection I thought I could check out from. After turning off several of my security settings to ensure the app (which was giving me vague geolocation errors) could find my location, my library card was denied. That's b/c my county isn't in the allowed list. This is despite the censorship efforts forcing my library to close. Palm Beach already had better access to these books than my county does! Sadly, though, there are no ebooks here for me.
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LYRASIS
July 24, 2023
Hi A.M. Lynn--thanks for your interest in the Palace app! If you contact bannedbookclubhelp@dp.la our support team should be able to assist with any virtual library card/geolocation issues.
Linda
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September 28, 2023
App still crashing, waited months on an audiobook, just to now not being able to hear it cause app crashes when it is tried to open. The loan is about to expire now, too!
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LYRASIS
October 3, 2023
Hi Linda,
Thank you for using the Palace app! We’re sorry to hear that you’ve run into some technical issues--we would love to help. We're more than happy to open a support ticket if you contact us at appreview@thepalaceproject.org with the specifics surrounding your experience.
What's new
* Added audiobook duration to book details
* Fixed a bug that caused duplicate bookmarks to be created
* Fixed bugs that occasionally caused crashes
For the full list of changes in this release, visit https://github.com/ThePalaceProject/android-core/releases/tag/palace-1.8.0.
