Bookshelf
4.1star
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About this app
With Bookshelf, you can enjoy a digital-first, comprehensive study experience from the convenience of your Android phone or tablet. Access all of your VitalSource textbooks and study anytime, anywhere.
Bookshelf Features:
• Download books to your Android device for 100% offline reading.
• Customize highlighters and add notes for a rich study experience.
• Create flashcards with text and images to learn concepts faster.
• Personalize font, font size, and background colors to make reading easier.
• Listen to your books and learn on the go with Read Aloud.
• Sync your current reading position and all your work across devices so you can easily pick up where you left off.
• Built with accessibility in mind.
Requirements:
• VitalSource Bookshelf account
• Access to one or more VitalSource textbooks.
• Android 5.0+
Bookshelf Features:
• Download books to your Android device for 100% offline reading.
• Customize highlighters and add notes for a rich study experience.
• Create flashcards with text and images to learn concepts faster.
• Personalize font, font size, and background colors to make reading easier.
• Listen to your books and learn on the go with Read Aloud.
• Sync your current reading position and all your work across devices so you can easily pick up where you left off.
• Built with accessibility in mind.
Requirements:
• VitalSource Bookshelf account
• Access to one or more VitalSource textbooks.
• Android 5.0+
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Ratings and reviews
4.0
13.3K reviews
Daniel Wood
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April 20, 2026
I love that I can read books offline, that it has a dark mode, and that it has the ability to read aloud to me. What I don't like is that when I am listening to a textbook it stops every few minutes when the app seems to just shut down. so I have to relaunch the app, go back into the book and start listening all over again. when I am listening to three chapters of a textbook for one week worth of reading, it is really annoying to have to restart it over and over.
7 people found this review helpful
Alexander Peterson
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March 20, 2025
The user interface is just awful. Selecting a chapter from a book doesn't minimize the side bar to display the chapter selected, it just loads the chapter behind the side bar, and tapping the page to view it reloads the previous chapter selected. Back arrow? Goes back to the main library selection. The text-to-speech is an easy 7/10 though. It messes up a small handful of things like numbers/years, but for the price (nothing extra) it's fantastic.
19 people found this review helpful
Virgil Kistler
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May 11, 2026
Crashes on average 2 times an hour losing your place in the book. On the bright side, I really really know the intro to every chapter very well. Constant errors, can't remove books from the shelf, cluttered and bad UI all and all terrible app. Unfortunately, I am forced to use it.
2 people found this review helpful
What’s new
* MLA, APA, Harvard, and Vancouver citation formats are available
* Updated Explore UI
* Explore content is integrated into the main search results
* Various bug fixes
* Updated Explore UI
* Explore content is integrated into the main search results
* Various bug fixes
App support
phone
Phone number
+18552004146
About the developer
VitalSource Technologies LLC
eudsa@vitalsource.com
227 Fayetteville St Ste 400
Raleigh, NC 27601-1575
United States
+1 919-213-7135
