Bookshelf

Name: Bookshelf
Availability: InStock
Rating: 2.5625 (18601 reviews)
Author: Vital Source Technologies

Vital Source Technologies

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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+

Use Bookshelf by VitalSource® for a comprehensive study experience.

Updated on

Aug 11, 2026

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No data shared with third parties
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Location, Personal info and 4 others
Data is encrypted in transit
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Ratings and reviews

13.4K reviews

Daniel Wood

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.

15 people found this review helpful

A Google user

November 15, 2019

Very Laggy app, that does not allow you to draw into a PDF. Publishers do not allow you to just download the PDF and use your own scribbling app, i respect that. But then, they should offert something that does the job just as fine. But you have to use such a lagging, unintuitive, crippled app that does not recognize a pen, nor lets you draw/scribble into digital documents. Thats how you frustrate people back to paper. Congraz.

11 people found this review helpful

Alexander Peterson

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.

27 people found this review helpful

What’s new

* Highlighting performance has been improved, especially for users with large
* Improved app stability with fixes for crashes across all platforms
* Stylus annotation support has been removed to improve overall reliability
* Improved navigation when deep linking to specific figures and headings in EPUB books
* Additional crash fixes

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