![]() This hold and drag business is ridiculousĢ. Better highlighting, especially with Apple Pencil. Reading the reviews, it looks as though the developers do update Bookshelf because I saw an option for night mode which someone had wanted. I can’t think of another reason you’d force users into a proprietary app that is free. I would assume they’re pretty good about not allowing users to share books. 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. ![]() ![]() It’s a shame the publishers force people to use an app this bad for their product. I have 40 flash cards for one unit but when I hover over the one I want to edit I get nothing. Then, say you messed up a flash card, editing them is a nightmare. Everywhere throughout Bookshelf it claims you can hover over any diagram or sketch and add it to a flash card. For whatever reason they only allow you one line to work with and you can’t space down to create a larger card. The flash cards are a nice addition, though you’re severely limited in how you can format them. The fact that this is geared toward text books and people who are going to need to search through the text on the regular is just ridiculous. There doesn’t appear to be any way to search for a phrase at all. For instance if you search for a two-worded phrase it will give you every single instance of both the words, which is less than helpful. Oh sure you can search in Bookshelf but it’s just awful. For me to get five stars, the book would have to be more interactive than simply QR codes and a few videos.īookshelf absolutely ruins the one great thing about ebooks: the ability to instantly search through them and find what you want. Don’t get me wrong I’m satisfied with the fact that I’m able to get all of this information for cheap compared to purchasing the full book, but if they are advertising certain capabilities in this application they should be usable throughout the entire book.įor me to give four stars, the entire book would need to be in a unified format of accessible text. All of the content within the chapter is a series of pictures I can’t do anything with. The only thing I’m actually able to highlight is section titles and some information in the section reviews. Instead, Bookshelf acts as if you’re trying to pick up a picture and move it somewhere else. When you attempt to highlight text in these “picture“ sections, it doesn’t let you highlight. ![]() It’s as if all they did was scan the book and stitch the pictures together in an app. The biggest gripe I have is that certain sections of the book appear to be pictures instead of accessible text. Why would I ever decide to use Bookshelf 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? Divisions between chapters are not clearly marked, leaving you confused about the context. On top of that, some of the text is skipped and other text that wasn’t even there before is added in. 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. Many words on the page are broken into their individual letters, resulting in words being spelled out one letter at a time. 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. They force you to frequently type your email and password just to use Bookshelf (there is no way to stay logged in), and the “read aloud” function is terrible. However, Bookshelf is buggy and is missing some basic features that completely remove the mobile advantage. The main benefit of Bookshelf is that it is more mobile than the website.
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