Bookshelf App Reviews

This app worked great before the update. Once the update happened the app wont let me make the font bigger on any of the books. This is a huge upset because I cannot see the books or am I comfortable reading the books.

5 stars I love this app. When the internet is down or when I am not in range of wifi or internet I can still pill my books up from school and study.

Several items for suggestion: 1. Items should be available to scroll as a .pdf, i.e. vertically; rather than one page at a time/horizontally. This is a deal breaker. 2. Search capability needs to be made better: An advanced search capability should be available that allows searching on certain words in certain books, allowing the page numbers to be limited would also help. 3. Current version keeps trying to buffer certain pages: the pages that are downloaded to my device should be saved offline and available without any buffering.

Trying to help your developers: Instead of greeting the first time user with oops, you have no books in your library, why dont you give a hint on how to use the app? The initial help screen is much too detailed. you need a quick start help screen for the busy first time user. it took me a while to figure out you need to go online, redeem, then download the books to the app?! why no redeem function in the app, or at least a quick explanation on the oops screen? sincerely hope this helps.

Been going to school for 3 years and have only used this app to do my reading, highlight, etc. Havent used my computer once, which is great because sitting in a desk chair for extended periods is a pain... literally. I can sit back on my coach and read just like a kindle!

The redeem option isnt available for me, which is a big deal because i need it to download the books for my college classes. Please fix it asap.

There are many things that make this app helpful as a college student. You can highlight text in different colors, setting what colors stand for what (different specific subjects, important for exam, confusing, etc.) as well as type notes for the highlighted sections if needed. You can also select a word you dont know and press "define," and the app provides you with a definition whether you are connected to wifi or not. If the definition doesnt suffice, you can even press an option to "look up on web" (of course, you can only does this with internet connection). There is also a option for an electronic voice to read the text to you. This is especially helpful for those who learn better by listening. As it reads along, you can still make highlights, notes, and look up definitions as needed.

For an app that is needed for student ebooks, it is awful!!!!!!! The textbook will not link up to the app. Are the app creators going to pay my tuition since I am hindered from reading my text by such a terrible app?

This app is for people that have books for online classes.

I really like the features offered with this app and the ability to read my textbooks anywhere. I do wish I could have the option to change the format of the textbooks to be similar to a traditional book rather than the endless scrolling for each chapter. It would also be beneficial if there were page numbers for the books, or the option to view the page number, this would make it easier to properly cite the information from the text in my assignments.

Yes! Easy access!

Nothing is working... help.. I bought a textbook at my bookstore at school and there is no place on the app to redeem it! Im crying!

The read-aloud feature has made my life easier. Great app!

First the app did not had a redeem option and it took me some time to do it through website. Second you cant navigate easily to your point of interest in this book. Feels like a first beta version of an reading platform.

All I want to do is have the read aloud feature to read from the chapter that I am in. Not read the entire table of contents. There is no way to navigate passed it and have to hear it every time. Hurts my feelings

Downloaded app. Started account. Wont let me login using app but I can on their website. Try to contact support like it says and my message gets returned due to their security.

I have been going to University of Phoenix for a while and they switched to this for their textbooks. This is much better than the "ProtectedPDF" books that we had before. It might be a little buggy, and sometimes it does crash, but for the most part this app is better than the previous app. Having the ability to view my books offline is amazing, and has made my iPad much more usable for my school. One feature that would make this a killer app would be multitasking (split screen). Being able to have Word and my textbook open at the same time would make researching my papers so much easier!

I love the app and the read a loud option. Since the new update its starts reading at the beginning of the chapter and not the page you choose. And if I tilt my phone the screen goes back to the first page also and I have to start searching for the page I was at...

This app is great! I love being able to access my books without having to have wifi. While it took awhile to get use to using ebooks, this app made the transition easier. This app is great, but it freezes up when I go to change the page. This is the only downfall that I have had while using this app. Besides that its a great app, and it is one that I use daily.

I am using Vital Source Bookshelf both on my iPhone and on my PC (Windows10). On the PC version I have an opinion to use the book reader. It helps me first of all because I am reading slowly and we need to read a lot for the course. And also I can do staff and your application will read for me the book. So I can listen to it and do the staff. But very often I can not take my laptop with me due to the sizes. I can not find this option on the application that I have on iPhone. Could you please help me to find where it is? Or if this feature is not present in this application. Can you make it for iPhone as well, like you made for windows. It would be super helpful.