Glassboxx

Glassboxx

About this app

Welcome to Glassboxx: hassle-free eBook and audiobook access, all in one place.

Glassboxx cuts through all digital content ‘authentication’ issues, consolidating your eBook AND audiobook purchases made through affiliated stores, within an eminently user-friendly, secure environment.

No password required – simply log in with the email address used to buy the book and enter the verification code sent to your email – and your content awaits in the ‘My Books’ area of the app, with formats clearly labelled. With the content in the cloud, downloading requires an initial internet connection, but once downloaded, your books can be enjoyed to your heart’s content in the remotest, furthest-flung corners of the earth, where internet penetration is a mere pipe-dream…

THE AUDIO-PLAYER WILL:

• Auto-save your current position in the book – so that you can pick up right where you left off, even if listening on different devices
• Allow for skip forward/backward to recap where relevant
• Offer sleep timer option
• Play on lock-screen, enabling easy access to playback controls
• Play in background whilst browsing other apps
• Play immediately, and download in the background (provided internet access is available)

THE EREADER ALLOWS FOR:

• Page book-marking, opening the title at the right place when you pick up, even across multiple devices
• Font-size and font face changes, as well as dyslexic-friendly font
• Background colour changes
• Full text search

Welcome to the Glassboxx (not Glassbox) community!

Ratings and reviews

I recently purchased the Revise SQE books. The only ereader through which they're available is this app. Pros: The text from the physical copy appear on the screen? Cons: 1. Very difficult to highlight. Makes studying difficult 2. progress, highights, bookmarks DO NOT sync across devices. It doesn't even open on the same page. The Glassboxx app lacks the basic ereader functionality that makes it near totally useless. You're almost better off reading from a stone tablet.

Leaving aside that I expected a downloadable PDF from my purchased paperback+ebook bundle, which is on the seller, I'm not impressed by this app itself. It's a very basic e-reader, but there don't seem to be any in-app settings I could see, and it forces the screen brightness up with no way to disable that. I also don't need an app that can check my location etc just to read a PDF. No thanks.

I didn't expect to only be able to read the e-book version on my mobile, so very disappointed with that. I sent two tweets to Unbound asking how I could read in kindle format but received no response at all, which is just rude. I'm doubly annoyed as I've pledged to the third book already and can't cancel their order now I've found out the format is basically unreadable. The app itself is very basic. Not even remotely impressed.

What’s new

We've added PDF navigation so you can easily jump between sections within your PDF ebooks and there have been some minor bug fixes to improve your experience.