Bookshelf
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | Free | Vital Source Technologies, Inc. | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Bookshelf Features:
• Download books to your iOS device for easy online or offline reading.
• Simple, user-friendly navigation and a clean reading experience.
• Search inside your current book or across your full library.
• Select text to create notes or highlights from your mobile device.
• Tap to open figures, view captions and pinch to zoom.
• Sync your bookmarks, last page read and all of your notes and highlights between your iOS device and our desktop or web-based Bookshelf apps.
Requirements:
• VitalSource Bookshelf account
• Access to one or more VitalSource textbooks
• iOS 7+
Reviews
Not sure what the hype is about
twoarmscollin
I have two textbooks that are both not functioning properly on my iPad Pro (3rd gen). It’s impossible to tell what page I’m on exactly because of how the scroll function is working. I do not have continuous scroll enabled. When I try to swipe left and right between pages it changes chapters instead. This happens in both books. According to the chat support agent I accessed through the app, things were working fine for them. So it’s not a publisher issue with a format they sent to Vitalsource. It’s an issue with the programming in the app. I’m in an intense graduate program that requires constant reading every day. I budget my time according to the number of pages I need to read each day in each book. This malfunction of the app prevents me from doing precisely that. I have to guesstimate which page I’m on which becomes highly frustrating. Others may not see this as a big deal, which is fine. But if the app was doing what it was supposed to do in the first place it wouldn’t be an issue at all. Won’t be ordering any more books through this service.
Crashing
D man-23
It keeps crashing on me I’m not satisfied. I’m using a iPad Pro that is only 8 hrs old
EduLifeline
Paul Gettmore
I can depend on vital source to deliver high-quality independent study tools and resources. This is the best mobile textbook/learning app.
Read a loud function
leslie626
The read aloud option doesn’t allow you to skip past the the tables or figures. It will read everything and sometimes you just want to read the text. Also every time you try to tap a vocabulary word it bring you to the back of the book and you have to go all the way back to get to where you left off.
Doesn’t work
Lucy--George
I can’t even open my textbook on the app it quits and crashes every time I try
Copyright Info on Bottom of Each Page
tommy okay
So I already purchased a physical copy, used, off of eBay (the way you should always do, viaLibri is even better). I paid the $35 for this electronic version solely for the ability to listen to the book. I can do that, it’s fine, the voices are getting better with “enhanced” option. So here’s my issue, and perhaps I am missing something, which if that’s the case I’ll never know: there is copyright info on the bottom of each “page” and THAT gets read as well, every single time. I can skip it when it gets there but it doesn’t allow me the opportunity to be free and just meditatively listen. It creates a lot of CHOP and should be remedied. Am I typing to a anybody, perhaps a 20 year old intern? “Help! I need somebody.” The Beatles.
Wish I could take notes
Ann0929
The app is fine, but I wish it had better integration with the Apple Pencil or any type of stylus. I want to be able to write notes, do practice problems (even something as simple as circling the answers), or make it easier to highlight directly onto the pages. Sometimes the highlighting function does not work very smoothly and is time-consuming. If anything, even an integration with a pdf based app like notability would be helpful.... just currently very cumbersome for me to use effectively as a student.
Annotation
asiuhh
Please add an annotation feature where users can utilize Apple Pencil it would be so helpful if I were able to write in the textbook digitally.
