Use Bookshelf to download and access VitalSource textbooks on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. Read your books online or offline and create notes and highlights to help you study. Bookshelf Features:.
Download books to your iOS device for easy online or offline reading. Simple, user-friendly navigation and a clean reading experience.
PC, Mac, or mobile device instead of weighing down your bookshelf • Instantly access all your Elsevier textbooks and references so you’re always prepared • Mobile apps available for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch – Android app coming soon! Create more engaging content • Share notes and highlights with students and colleagues.
Search inside your book for a term or phrase. Select text to create notes or highlights from your mobile device. Review flashcards to quiz yourself on key concepts.
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Tap to open figures, view captions, and pinch to zoom. Use text-to-speech to listen to your textbooks read aloud. Sync your bookmarks, current reading position, and all of your notes and highlights between your iOS device, desktop, and online Bookshelf apps. Requirements:. VitalSource Bookshelf account. Access to one or more VitalSource textbooks.
We have some exciting updates for you. Along with a number of bug fixes and performance improvements, we're also including two new exciting features in 3.8.1:. Text-to-speech - have your book read aloud to you while you multitask or simply rest your eyes. Review Mode - a powerful new way to study with Bookshelf. You can review both your own and your subscribed notes and highlights in a focused way. Create personalized review sessions that focus on just the material you need to study faster and more efficiently. We are working hard to make sure you enjoy Bookshelf.
If you find a bug, have an issue, or think of a way to make it better, please let us know: [email protected]. 3.8 Aug 22, 2016. We have some exciting updates for you. Along with a number of bug fixes and performance improvements, we're also including two new exciting features in 3.8:. Text-to-speech - have your book read aloud to you while you multitask or simply rest your eyes. Review Mode - a powerful new way to study with Bookshelf. You can review both your own and your subscribed notes and highlights in a focused way.
Create personalized review sessions that focus on just the material you need to study faster and more efficiently. We are working hard to make sure you enjoy Bookshelf. If you find a bug, have an issue, or think of a way to make it better, please let us know: [email protected]. 3.7.3 Jun 20, 2016. Bj555, Primitive The use of highlighting and note taking is very primitive, as if they don’t want you to be able to do it; like the idea was an afterthought and was thrown in at the last minute. It’s not intuitive, is buggy, and after about 2 hours of trying to highlight and add notes, you are exhausted. I have an apple pen, and this app makes no use of that technology, but really, your finger isn’t much better either.
I feel like they used basic technology from 15 years ago and your using a mouse instead of a precise touch screen (iPad Pro). I’m forced to use it because that is the only place I can get my textbook.
I’m on page 200, and I’m ready to give up and pack around the 3” thick book with me. Developers: if you want to know how it should be to take notes, highlight, and mark up, take a look at GoodNotes4. They have it figured out. Hopefully you can figure this out, otherwise, I’ll got back to carrying giant textbooks around again.
At least I can resell them. Bj555, Primitive The use of highlighting and note taking is very primitive, as if they don’t want you to be able to do it; like the idea was an afterthought and was thrown in at the last minute. It’s not intuitive, is buggy, and after about 2 hours of trying to highlight and add notes, you are exhausted. I have an apple pen, and this app makes no use of that technology, but really, your finger isn’t much better either. I feel like they used basic technology from 15 years ago and your using a mouse instead of a precise touch screen (iPad Pro). I’m forced to use it because that is the only place I can get my textbook. I’m on page 200, and I’m ready to give up and pack around the 3” thick book with me.
Developers: if you want to know how it should be to take notes, highlight, and mark up, take a look at GoodNotes4. They have it figured out.
Hopefully you can figure this out, otherwise, I’ll got back to carrying giant textbooks around again. At least I can resell them. JJMCST, Not a good app, but it has potential with changes This is not a functional app, especially for educational purposes. First of all, many of the services provided by the desktop app are not available through the mobile version. It is somewhat understandable for some of the more complex features offered in other apps, such as Microsoft Office, but in a reading app I feel that there is no excuse. For one thing, in the desktop version it will use a primitive text-to-speech (TTS) program to enable you to listen while working on something else.
This would be much better applied to a mobile version, or does that make too much sense? There are other issues that prevent the mobile version from being a success, but all of them, including the TTS should be an easy fix with an update. Overall, a very frustrating app that could be great with just a little tweaking. JJMCST, Not a good app, but it has potential with changes This is not a functional app, especially for educational purposes. First of all, many of the services provided by the desktop app are not available through the mobile version. It is somewhat understandable for some of the more complex features offered in other apps, such as Microsoft Office, but in a reading app I feel that there is no excuse.
For one thing, in the desktop version it will use a primitive text-to-speech (TTS) program to enable you to listen while working on something else. This would be much better applied to a mobile version, or does that make too much sense? There are other issues that prevent the mobile version from being a success, but all of them, including the TTS should be an easy fix with an update.
Overall, a very frustrating app that could be great with just a little tweaking. Medic68, Crashes too much I’m in nursing school for my BSN and I have to do a lot of reading. Majority of my books are on Elsevier or PrepU which they use bookshelf for the ebook. I listen to the audio since majority is difficult for me.
The lady is monotone and can easily put you to sleep. On my Mac it’s a guy voice which is also monotone. The problem with the iPhone app are the fact that listening to the audio, when I highlight, it freezes and takes a long time to refresh. Highlights on the app is one color which makes it difficult to separate topics. Other times the app doesn’t even load my book and crashes. The main issue is the crashing because it interferes greatly with my reading or listening.
Medic68, Crashes too much I’m in nursing school for my BSN and I have to do a lot of reading. Majority of my books are on Elsevier or PrepU which they use bookshelf for the ebook. I listen to the audio since majority is difficult for me. The lady is monotone and can easily put you to sleep. On my Mac it’s a guy voice which is also monotone. The problem with the iPhone app are the fact that listening to the audio, when I highlight, it freezes and takes a long time to refresh.
Highlights on the app is one color which makes it difficult to separate topics. Other times the app doesn’t even load my book and crashes. The main issue is the crashing because it interferes greatly with my reading or listening.
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