Bookshelf for PC

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Software Features and Description

1. With Bookshelf, you can enjoy a digital-first, comprehensive study experience from the convenience of your iPad or iPhone.

2. • Sync your current reading position and all your work across devices so you can easily pick up where you left off.

3. • Download books to your iOS device for 100% offline reading.

4. • Customize highlighters and add notes for a rich study experience.

5. • Personalize font, font size, and background colors to make reading easier.

6. Access all of your VitalSource textbooks and study anytime, anywhere.

7. • Create flashcards with text and images to learn concepts faster.

8. • Listen to your books and learn on the go with Read Aloud.

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Download and install Bookshelf on your computer

GET Compatible PC App

App	Download	Rating	Maker
Bookshelf	Get App ↲	67,846 4.64	VitalSource Technologies, Inc.

Or follow the guide below to use on PC:

Select Windows version:

Windows 10
Windows 11

Install Bookshelf app on your Windows in 4 steps below:

Download an Android emulator for PC:
Get either Bluestacks or the Nox App >> . We recommend Bluestacks because you can easily find solutions online if you run into problems while using it. Download Bluestacks PC software Here >> .

Install the emulator:
On your computer, goto the Downloads folder » click to install Bluestacks.exe or Nox.exe » Accept the License Agreements » Follow the on-screen prompts to complete installation.

Using Bookshelf on PC [Windows 10/ 11]:

Open the Emulator app you installed » goto its search bar and search "Bookshelf"
The search will reveal the Bookshelf app icon. Open, then click "Install".
Once Bookshelf is downloaded inside the emulator, locate/click the "All apps" icon to access a page containing all your installed applications including Bookshelf.
Now enjoy Bookshelf on PC.

Download a Compatible APK for PC

Download	Developer	Rating	Current version
Get APK for PC →	VitalSource Technologies, Inc.	4.64	10.5.1

Download on Windows 11

For Windows 11, check if there's a native Bookshelf Windows app here » ». If none, follow the steps below:

To get started, Download the OpenPC software »
- Upon installation, open OpenPC app » goto "Playstore on PC" » click "Configure_Download" button. This will auto-download and install PlayStore on your computer.

To use Bookshelf,
- Login to the PlayStore we just installed
- Search for "Bookshelf" » then Click "Install".
- Bookshelf will now be available on your Windows start-menu.

Minimum requirements	Recommended
8GB RAM SSD Storage Processor: Intel Core i3, AMD Ryzen 3000 Architecture: x64 or ARM64	16GB RAM HDD Storage

Get Bookshelf on Apple macOS

Download	Developer	Reviews	Rating
Get Free on Mac	VitalSource Technologies, Inc.	67846	4.64

Download on Android: Download Android

✔ Pros:

- Layout mirrors the actual book as much as possible

- More than one color highlight available

- Study features such as notes, highlighting, bookmarks, flashcards, and citations are useful

☹ Cons:

- Small font and almost no formatting for books bought from VitalSource

- Limited formatting options provided

- Inconvenient to install on an old device as it locks you from reading

- Can't flip pages from the sides, takes up text space

- "Read aloud" function is terrible, voice sounds robotic and words are spelled out one letter at a time

- Footnotes are announced for every page, interrupting the reading experience

- App is buggy and missing basic features such as staying logged in and zooming in and out with a finger pinch

- Proprietary app forces users to use it instead of other reading apps like iBooks.

Top Pcmac Reviews

Just use the website

By ~chrisw~ (Pcmac user)

The main benefit of this app is that it is more mobile than the website. However, this app is buggy and is missing some basic features that completely remove the mobile advantage. They force you to frequently type your email and password just to use the app (there is no way to stay logged in), and the “read aloud” function is terrible. The low quality of the voice on my device is understandable because they use your device’s built-in speech engine, but they don’t set up their books to be read correctly by speech engines. Many words on the page are broken into their individual letters, resulting in words being spelled out one letter at a time. All footnotes are announced for every page, so I hope you enjoy having your book interrupted about once a minute to hear about all the legal restrictions on how you can use the book. On top of that, some of the text is skipped and other text that wasn’t even there before is added in. Divisions between chapters are not clearly marked, leaving you confused about the context. Why would I ever decide to use this app when I can use the larger screen of one of many public computers that are increasingly available to everyone, or my laptop which is easy to bring anywhere?
Misses the Mark

By _thelionheart (Pcmac user)

The pharmacology book I bought is in ePub format, so I don’t see why I couldn’t just download it on iBooks to begin with. I would assume they’re pretty good about not allowing users to share books. I can’t think of another reason you’d force users into a proprietary app that is free. Reading the reviews, it looks as though the developers do update this app because I saw an option for night mode which someone had wanted. Here’s what I’d like: 1. Better highlighting, especially with Apple Pencil. This hold and drag business is ridiculous 2. Changed chapter/page format. Each chapter being a page, I can see where that would sound convenient in a meeting but if your chapter is 30+ pages long it’s rather inconvenient to keep scrolling. That’s all so far. Thanks! Oh last thing-people are on here rating 5 stars because you can read the book offline with the app-you bought this book. You should be able to view it anywhere, just as you would a physical book. That’s not an amazing feature, that’s basic ebooks. I hope my concerns are addressed but either way I appreciate fewer natural resources being used to make a textbook that I have to have anyway.
Excellent

By Stellie10 (Pcmac user)

The reading app is excellent. Layout is made with an effort to mirror the actual book as much as possible. Appreciate the fact that there is more that one color highlight, although there could be more than just two colors. Second thing that could be better is the frame for viewing tables. I would appreciate being able to zoom in and out with a finger pinch. And lastly, the « narrator» needs to sound much more like an actual human reading. As for now it is like a robot reading sequences of sentences. Nonetheless, scrolling down the text is easy and there is no hopping from page to page; it is rather a continuous thread when it comes to any particular chapter. And by only sliding left or right you are already in the next chapter. This keeps different chapters closer, and saves time. If improvement is made to based on the preceding fallouts, I think this is can become the leader in reading apps (I have already tried both Inkling and kindle).
Good enough, but needs more fundamental features

By net0_ (Pcmac user)

I am using this app only because the books you buy from VitalSource are encrypted and can only be read from this app. The app shows books with a small font and almost no formatting at all (no identation, no spacing). You need to make do with the few formatting options they provide to make it easier to look at. I also wish you could flip pages from the sides instead from the top and bottom, since it takes up text space. The app also locks you from reading if you install it on an old device, and it becomes inconvenient when you have an old iPad used mainly as an eBook reader, and can't keep all your books on the same place. The app does have some good aspects, the reading feature keeps me focused on the text more than if I read it by myself, and there are a few study features (notes, highlighting, bookmarks and flashcards, citations) and they are useful to study.