The Palace Project

Lyrasis

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.

Ratings and reviews

App is very buggy. Locks up a lot. Asked for card number just to return a book. Have to reinstall it to get it to function properly. Edit: no longer makes me enter my card number to return but still locks up numerous times during each book. I need to close the app, clear the cache and reopen. Upon restarting it loses the spot where it locked up and returns to the previous location it was upon opening. Not good for driving because of this and just plain frustrating even when not driving.

I really want to love this app but it crashes so much! I've been trying to listen to the same audio book since yesterday morning and I feel like every 30-40 minutes it crashes and then it starts back up at a random place. I've started randomly hitting the bookmark button just to save my spot for the next crash. I'm going to finish this book because I've been waiting forever to listen to Bloodmarked but unless this issue is fixed I don't think I'll be continuing to use the app.

I came to check on an update because I was hopeful the glitches were being fixed. Alas, nothing yet. I find when the screen times out, and I open the book to read, it takes me back to a random place several pages back. I then have to turn the pages to find my place. This happens all the time since I havent figured out any way to make the screen not go dark if I havent turned the page fast enough. Please fix these problems.

What’s new

* Fixed a bug that sometimes caused saved reading position to go back a few pages
* Fixed a bug that prevented audiobook playback speed from being saved properly after closing a book
* Fixed a bug that caused HTML tags to display in some book descriptions
* Resolved a login issue with two-factor authentication

For the full list of changes in this release, visit https://github.com/ThePalaceProject/android-core/releases/tag/palace-1.15.0.