Access a wide range of academic textbooks and books with Perlego — the digital library that helps students, researchers, and lifelong learners study on their own terms. Perlego gives you access to over 1 million academic titles across hundreds of subjects, all in one easy-to-use app. Whether you’re revising for exams, writing an essay, or carrying out research, Perlego helps you find, read, and use the resources you need.
Why students choose Perlego:
A large library of academic books
- Explore more than 1 million books and textbooks across 950+ topics, including Business, Psychology, History, Medicine, and Law. You’ll find essential course texts, non-fiction and fiction favourites, and key supplementary readings — all in one place.
Listen to books with text-to-speech
- Need to give your eyes a break? Use our built-in read-aloud feature to listen to books while you commute, exercise, or unwind. It’s a flexible way to keep learning when you don’t have time to sit and read.
Study tools designed to help you focus
- Highlight important passages, add notes directly on the page, and save bookmarks for quick reference. Whether you’re preparing for exams or researching an assignment, Perlego helps you stay organised and make meaningful progress.
Read offline, anywhere
- No WiFi? No worries. Download your books for offline reading, so you can study on the subway, in a café, or wherever you need to concentrate.
Sync across all your devices
- Start reading on your phone and pick up where you left off on your laptop or tablet. Your library stays with you, so you never lose momentum.
Discover a smarter way to learn
Join thousands of learners saving money, finding reliable academic content, and studying more efficiently.
Download Perlego today to access the books you need — whenever and wherever you need them.
Overall speaking, I love this website! It makes reading academic literature more affordable and accessible for people like me. Here are a few things that can be improved: 1. the app on ipad isn’t great to use. it feels difficult to navigate. As much as I want to spend more time reading on my phone or tablet when I am on the road, I avoid doing so. 2. please add more books, both the new ones and the old ones!! 3. by any chance that you could make scrolling smoother? 4. some updates need to be made. For example, the career page of Perlego is still shown as “2022 Perlego’s Career Page.” It’s now 2025!
Developer Response
Thank you so much for your kind words and thoughtful feedback! We’re thrilled to hear that you find the website helpful for making academic literature more accessible and affordable.Regarding the areas you mentioned:1. iPad App Navigation: We’re sorry to hear that the app isn’t as smooth on your iPad. We're constantly working to improve the user experience, and your feedback will definitely help guide us. We’ll keep refining the app to make it easier to navigate.2. More Books: We like your thinking, and we’re actively working to expand our library with both new releases and classic titles, adding thousands every month! Please feel free to submit book requests anytime; you can find the option to do so in the Help Centre.3. Smoother Scrolling: At the moment, the limitations you're encountering are specific to PDFs, as they don’t support the same level of customisation for page scrolling. We're actively working on improving this, but the current design doesn’t allow for the more seamless swipe or scroll options that you might expect.For ePUBs, however, we do offer more flexibility. You'll have the option to choose between scrolling or swiping, which should make navigation much easier and smoother. Additionally, ePUBs won’t get “stuck” on individual pages, and you won’t need to use the small arrows to turn pages.4. Career Page Update: Great catch! We appreciate you pointing that out, and we'll make sure to update the career page to reflect the current year. Thank you for bringing it to our attention.Your feedback is invaluable, and we’re grateful for your support as we continue to improve. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any other suggestions or need assistance—your input helps us grow!
Great premise, but the app needs a lot of work
isaiah11007
I really love the premise of this company. I discovered it in college and have never stopped using it since. Unfortunately, the best way to experience Perlego is on a computer. Their website has more features, less glitches, and is overall holds much better experience. I want to love the app, but it is, unfortunately, subpar. My books download and are fine for a while, but after a few days of reading, chapters go missing and the books take forever to load. The interface is a bit wonky to navigate as well. Despite all this, I’ll still keep using Perlego. It’s been such a help in saving money and in exploring new titles and authors. I hope the app does improve!
Great selection of academic texts, but buggy interface..
Ashraf O.
Perlego is a lifesaver if you don't have access to a good academic library. And perhaps even more convenient than one if you do. But the interface leaves a bit to be desired: the scrolling is somewhat buggy, for instance, where the top and bottom margins may stretch; the viewing options are rather limited in many cases; there's no copy or citation option for referencing, etc. So while there's room for improvement, I'm nevertheless very glad it exists!
Developer Response
Hi Ashraf, Thank you for sharing your feedback with us! While we work to add these features on the app, you can find a citation generator as well as a copy and paste option on the website. You'll also find the formatting of the book you're reading may be the reason for your limited viewing options. ePUBs will have more settings to choose from. I hope this helps!
Intuitive app but the reader has issues
YeahYouWish
First of all, nice and clean interface and the interface is pretty intuitive. I was really happy with the whole experience until i got into the reader to read a book.It took me a while to get used to the motion of swiping to the next page. From using regular apps and ebooks such as apple’s Books app, I am used to the fluid motion of swiping between pages. However, this app requires more of a prolonged hold and swipe which is very unintuitive and has a bit of a learning curve. I’d urge you to please make the swiping gesture more seamless.What grinded my gear the most is that, images inside the books appear to be cropped. As the image in the book is apparently of dimensions that is beyond what will cleanly fit on the screen, it chose to zoom in and cropped the borders with no way to zoom out. Now I can’t clearly see the content. Being unable to see the content is a huge deal to me given that it is an educational textbook. I hope that you’ll fix it soon.Except for these, really neat app. Couldn’t give more stars just because it fell short where it was needed the most :(
Developer Response
Hi there,Thanks so much for sharing your feedback here! I'm glad you find our app intuitive overall. While our PDFs are formatted on the app to scroll, our ePUBs are formatted for swiping instead. This is supposed to imitate reading a book and there's no need for holding down the page while swiping, just a simple swipe across the screen will do. We do appreciate the choice between scrolling and swiping would be preferred and we have began looking into this customisation to have in the future, so be on the look out for updates!As for images appearing cropped, would you mind reaching out to help@perlego.com and letting us know what book(s) this is happening with so we may take a closer look? If ever there's any issues with a title, you can always let us know and our engineers will be happy to look into it for you 😊We look forward to hearing from you soon!The Perlego Team
We are constantly working on improving Perlego’s app for you, doing our best to release updates every few weeks. With this update, we’ve made a few tweaks here and there to squash some minor bugs and general housekeeping of the app. Stay updated to keep up with the latest updated features for the best experience we currently offer!
Version 6.8.1
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