Bookshelf

kmk

3 years ago

The Android reader does not reflow the text when you adjust the font size. Instead you have swipe to the right 2 or 3 times to read a full line, then swipe back left 2 or 3 times to get to the start of the next line. That makes the $107 book I purchased virtually unreadable. Is there a solution being worked on for this? If not I want my purchase price refunded. This "ebook" meets no standards for ebooks at all and shouldn't be described as such. I will be contacting the publisher as well.

Lauren Chinn

3 years ago

Being able to have digital textbooks is life-changing for me going back to school this time around, and this app allows me to do so in a way that's very easy to use! The features to read aloud, highlight, take notes, search, and jump between pages are intuitive and exactly what I need to help me process and retain the information. Some complaints are I can't find a way to download my books to my SD card instead of internal storage, and I've been encountering some issues with highlighting.

A Google user

6 years ago

I like that I can read my books on the go but I keep having to uninstall and install it again...it somehow is a bridge to allow random ads pop up on my phone like its been hacked. When i uninstall it, I have no issues with these random pop ups until I install it again. I've tested it several times and I have pinpointed it to this app.

Robert Artz

2 years ago

The app has been pretty good for the most part at accessing my digital library. Some of the highlights colors don't show up on my android device unless it is in landscape. Portrait doesn't show them. I have been as of late experiencing force close on multiple devices (both Android and windows). I would also love to see a completely dark theme instead of only the darker Grey that still seems a bit hard to read in my opinion. Why not take advantage of these nice oled screens?

A Google user

6 years ago

If you have any other option for textbooks, DO NOT USE THIS SERVICE. Slow, clunky, barely usable. The best thing I can say about this app is that by comparison every other book app is flawless. I have the textbooks downloaded on the app and it still takes several seconds to load each page. This may not seem like a big issue, but they only let you jump between the first page of the chapter. To go and find anything you have to skim page by page and wait while each page loads individual, only to place over the page to the next one. Mean while by the time you get anywhere, you have completely forgotten about what you where looking for to begin with. In short stay far away from this app

Rebecca Fisette

2 years ago

Easy to use, great resource! I wish the audio was better but it's acceptable. It just doesn't allow for a smooth read because of the charts and other features of textbooks. I like to listen to the text while doing other things which require my hands, but I constantly have to stop and figure out where the book is reading (sometimes in the middle of sentences it will read a different area(charts, etc.) And I will lose what the topic was. But overall, a good resource that I will continue to use

A Google user

5 years ago

Look, I've only had this app for about an hour, but I can already tell you that you only get the one star because you offer a text-to-voice option, and that it is able to run in the background. The voice itself is absolutely TERRIBLE! Somehow it is both horribly mechanical, and yet still pronounces the word customer like "customah" at least half the time. Furthermore, you don't need to read the copyright information for every caption, a move that shows just how painfully lazy this app is made.

Ian Kim

4 years ago

This app so poorly optimized that it takes minutes to load and freezes constantly when scrolling. Even though my phone has 12gb of RAM. Let that sink in. Lag with 12gb of RAM. Sure half of it is being used by other poorly optimized apps but that still leaves 6gb of RAM idle. And yet it feels like I'm trying to load an image, on a website from the 90s. Using a dialup connection. Also from the 90s. It's doing so much unnecessary stuff that could otherwise be done with just a PDF file. Fix it.

A Google user

5 years ago

go back to inkling. top of app screen sometimes obscures first line. can't play video. can't zoom into images-this basically is a deal-killer for a small screen for highly technical graphs and figures. will bookmark and annotate, but every reader app does this. of course, you can always default to accessibility features if your os and device support, but don't we wish we didn't have to resort to that?

Jayde Taylor

1 year ago

Audio feature is more annoying than anything. When listening to my textbook, the audio pronounces words wrong, reads off periods, and when skipping, the reaction time is very delayed. Scrolling through pages is a joke because if you zoom in at all (even unknowingly) then you can't flip to the next page. Reader does play when the app is not open, but will randomly stop.

Jennifer Morrey

3 years ago

This app is great... I especially like the read aloud feature, which lets me listen to textbooks while doing housework or art... a definite plus to staying awake while reading! I would have given it 5 stars, but there is a serious glitch in the citing function... if the book has more than 1 author, it will list only one author and then have a string of initials that represent the rest of them. And they are in the wrong order. That seriously needs to be fixed. Makes reference lists look silly.

Linh Le

1 year ago

It's reading feature is really nice to have! Plus you can put bookmarks and do flashcards. Sadly you can't print or send your flashcards anywhere, and there isn't enough customization on how it reads. The navigation is alright, it can jump you around a little and hard for you to get back. The book reading occasionally freezes too! Good thing it kinda saves you at the location you're at.

Mark Bailey

1 year ago

This is almost unusable! My screen is quite large, but, obviously, to read a textbook, I'm going to have to zoom in. In landscape view, I can read the whole line from left to right, and that's all very well, but I can't turn the page unless I zoom all the way out so that the whole page is about an inch tall. There's an alternative view which shows page turning arrows, but I can't even see all of the page in that view, no matter how I scroll. Fail!

A Google user

6 years ago

It is very convenient as i use it for school. What I loved about it was the audible because I could listen to my book however, it gets choppy, and i have checked my setting reset go back and then it reads either to fast or way to slow no in between is there not away to fix at least the settings so that it actually matches up to the setting I set.

Rich Shrum

10 months ago

This app provides a terrible experience on a phone-- It is unusable on a small device. You cannot adjust the text size. You can do something like a zoom but the virtual pages float around inexplicably, jumping erratically. It's impossible to scroll or page through a book. Compared with something like Amazon's kindle app, it's appallingly bad.

Grace Speese

1 year ago

Very handy for school on the go! Love all the features, especially the Read Aloud capability. Even though it's a computer voice and it reads literally everything on a page including photo citations - that part could be improved. But hey, I'm grateful for this capability that I can Read by the pool or listen on my commute, very convenient!

LifeofBeauty K

10 months ago

I was hesitant about eBooks, but I'm thrilled with Bookshelf. It's user-friendly, allows note-taking, and highlighting with multiple colors. You can change the background to sepia and adjust text spacing. Creating flashcards and sorting them by familiarity is great. It also reads the text aloud at adjustable speeds. The features are amazing—I wish all my eBooks were on this app. Love, love, love it! The only downside is the sound of the voice text.