NetGalley Shelf 4+
reading & listening app
NetGalley, LLC
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- Free
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Description
NetGalley Shelf is a reading and listening app for NetGalley members. NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies and audiobooks to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley community to discover, request, read, and review.
NetGalley does not sell any content, including books or audiobooks. Each book on NetGalley is provided to specific members by the publisher directly, at no cost to the NetGalley member. Books on the NetGalley site are used for review and promotional purposes only.
Users of the NetGalley Shelf app will need to register as NetGalley members on NetGalley.com or NetGalley.co.uk, then all your approved NetGalley books and audiobooks will automatically appear in this app. No need to press Download on the NetGalley website!
Reading is easy and convenient using the NetGalley Shelf app. Download approved books for access on the go, or start listening right away with streaming for audiobooks.
What’s New
Version 1.3.2
Small improvements and bug fixes
Ratings and Reviews
Can I just read?!
This app is super glitchy!
I ‘bookmark’ a page and that bookmark just disappears when I come on next.
If I stop reading part way through a chapter, when I come on the app next it has gone back to the start of that chapter.
A couple times now I have just swiped to go to the next page and it has jumped ahead like 5 to 10 pages for no reason.
Also why isn’t highlighting/note taking an option for the eBooks? You would think considering this app is purely used for books that are to be reviewed that you would have the option. Highlighting so we can mark parts or making notes for when we want to go back when writing our review should be a given. Really not happy with this app.
Also downloading the eBooks takes way longer than it should.
What an appalling app!
I can’t believe that NetGalley expects people to read book in this app. It’s seriously bad.
I did finally figure out how to change the font size to something that I could read. BUT no matter the font size, it cut off the bottom of every page in dual page mode. It did the same thing in scroll mode at the end of every chapter! So I used scroll mode to read most of it, and when I got to the end of each chapter, I switched to dual page mode to read the last few lines. But when you switch, it goes back to the beginning of the chapter, so you have to scroll through to get to your place!!
There was also the problem of inadvertently going to the next chapter if you touched the side of the screen, when you’re in scroll mode.
Honestly, could NetGalley have made it any harder to read books from them? The only other option is to download to a computer, which doesn’t work if you want to read in bed, as I do.
I’m certainly not going to use NetGalley to get reviews for my books again! Nobody is going to use this app from choice!!!
Too small
Why on earth wouldn’t you include an option to make the text larger? I can’t read books in this app. I’d need binoculars to do so!
App Privacy
The developer, NetGalley, LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
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Information
- Seller
- NetGalley, LLC
- Size
- 25.2 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Basque, Catalan, Croatian, French, Galician, German, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © NetGalley, LLC
- Price
- Free