Bookshelf

Name: Bookshelf
Availability: InStock
Rating: 2.2093024253845215 (17898 reviews)
Author: Vital Source Technologies

Vital Source Technologies

2.2

17.9K reviews

1M+

Downloads

PEGI 3

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+

Updated on

Aug 26, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.

No data shared with third parties

Learn more about how developers declare sharing

This app may collect these data types

Location, Personal info and 4 others

Data is encrypted in transit

You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

2.1

12.9K reviews

Sarah Crabbleapple

September 14, 2025

We won't tell you up front that you're not getting an epub or even a DRM'd PDF, but a file readable in our app only. We won't tell you that you can only access it on two devices. And we're the kind of jerks who force our FAQ to open in Chrome, not your default browser, and it's all cookies or none, you can't select categories. Welp, I know who I'm never, ever dealing with again.

2 people found this review helpful

A Google user

November 6, 2019

Terrible. Cluttered UI and completely unintuitive in use. I was recommended to use this by my university, but I'm switching to an alternative now. Once again: TERRIBLE | Edit: 'we'd like to get into contact with you to look into the issue'. How about no. If you can't identify these glaring issues without my input, I don't think there's any hope for this app anyway. This response is allready taking up more energy than I find reasonable so just review the product and figure it out for yourselves.

6 people found this review helpful

Vital Source Technologies

November 5, 2019

Thank you for your review. We apologize for the issues you are having with Bookshelf. We’d like to look into this issue for you. Would you please email us at, [email protected], and include the book, device, and version of Android you are running?

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.

15 people found this review helpful