Bookshelf

Name: Bookshelf
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.140000104904175 (18643 reviews)
Author: Vital Source Technologies

Vital Source Technologies

18.6K reviews

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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

11 Aug 2026

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
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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

13.4K reviews

Sof Gdggd

6 August 2020

Dreadful bloatware (200MB+ just to read some text). I only installed for a book club book that I couldn't access otherwise. Glad I only paid for one book, because only got one chapter in, found it hard to read. Meant to come back, now can't recover account. Downloaded EPUBs seem a better idea than this DRM nonsense. No, I'm not going to email your support, as I've wasted enough time and will have to write off the time and money. Luckily I have a good independent bookshop for proper books.

10 people found this review helpful

A Google user

8 December 2018

Very disappointing app in its present form. I was delighted to see my textbook was available in ebook format as I have found this very useful for similar books by other publishers. Unfortunately though, this reader is very cumbersome and unintuitive particularly with page navigation and resizing, making it frustrating to use. It is also slow to load despite a fast internet connection. Hopefully an update can address these issues.

14 people found this review helpful

Vital Source Technologies

9 December 2018

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, mobile.help@vitalsource.com, and include the book, device, and version of Android you are running?

Daniel Wood

20 April 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.

18 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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