VitalSource Bookshelf 5.0

Free It is not just the e-books viewer software but it is also an e-books organizer
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VitalSource Bookshelf is e-books software from VitalSource technologies. It is not just the e-books viewer software but it is also an e-books organizer or manager. By using this advanced software you can easily read your books and you can also highlights the topics in the books which VitalSource bookshelf will remember for you. VitalSource Bookshelf also gives you the facility to prepare notes. And you can share these notes and highlighted topics of your books with your friends and with other persons if you want to do so. In the VitalSource Bookshelf you can easily manage your all books and notes very easily because it provide you the options to create categories and sub-categories for your different types of books. Here you can also add different types of highlighters for batter management of books and topics. With this useful software you can also view the highlighted topics and notes of other persons and friends who want to share their highlighted topic and notes with you. But in this bookshelf you can only add books in the Vitalsource format from VitalSource and you can not organize your PDF books you already have in your computer with this software.

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Pros

  • Freeware
  • Options to create categories and sub-categories
  • Options to make different highlighters
  • Option to highlight topics
  • Options to make notes
  • Facility to share notes and highlighted topics with others

Cons

  • Works only with VitalSource format books
  • Can’t add existing PDF books

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rating Megan M
So many issues with this ereader. I finally opted to go the ebook route for a course I'm taking and this is clunky and incredibly not user friendly. When you zoom and out, the clarity changes - some zoom levels are blurry. The scroll function is far from smooth and jumps large sections at a time. There are large header and footer sections that make the readable section super short and the text is on different sides of the page every other page so your eyes are constantly jumping back and forth from the right to left. AND it looks like there's option to print 10 pages at a time BUT if you do try, there is security in place that ensures that the only thing that prints are black and gray blobs.

I've been struggling to get through this reading and am working with Kaplan to see if they have any other solutions without having to duplicately buy the hard copies.

I thought this would be more convenient for travelling on the go but absolutely not, I'd opt for the extra $700 for the textbooks for the Kaplan CFFP CFP education courses. Super disappointed in Kaplan for choosing this product.

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rating Madyson M Foley
This software for macos causes so much input lag on my computer, which is one of the newer macs designed for programming... and my school requires me to use it because they have a partnership with this software to access the text books. you need to do better.

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rating Anthony Condotta
Terrible. Cannot handle basic functions such as highlighting despite advertising these features. The more you use said features, the glitchier the software becomes until is completely unusable.

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