
Bookshop.org Ebooks 12+
Support local bookstores
Bookshop, Inc.
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
Bookshop's mission is simple: To help local, independent bookstores thrive in the age of ecommerce.
Now with Bookshop's new ebook platform, your ebooks will support your local bookstore as well.
In our reader app you can:
- read ebooks in your library
- browse millions of ebooks to add to your wishlist
- seamlessly connect with Bookshop to ensure that all of your online book purchases support your community
Certified as a B Corp, Bookshop puts our mission and the public good above financial interests, giving over 80% of our profit margin to independent bookstores. Since 2020, we have raised over $35 million for independent bookstores.
What’s New
Version 1.0.26
• Fixed a bug that prevented preview book links from opening preview books directly in the app
• Fixed a bug that (when logged out) deleted preview books from your device after hard closing your app
• Added an account sign up button to the home and profile screens
• [Reader] Added additional text size options
• [Reader] Added options to adjust line height and paragraph spacing
• [Reader] Added a Midnight theme
Ratings and Reviews
Good start - needs some work
I am very happy to be able to buy ebooks from indie stores. Some things about the app need improving :
- while the text size is adjustable, the largest setting is still barely large enough for me to read without eye strain. It is not large enough for someone needing the equivalent of large-print books.
- something about page turning is too sensitive or works wrong: if I touch the right side sometimes the text skips forward several pages.
Reading experience is sorely lacking
No ability to adjust line height or margins (seriously?). Only “serif” or “sans-serif” as font options. Only 4 font size options. Spacing added between paragraphs that don’t have them in other e-readers. Italics in the book getting stripped that are there in other e-readers (this is inexcusable). Formatting for things like inline letters/epigraphs look bad, where they look nice in other e-readers. Only purple as dark mode. No ability to “zoom out” to see multiple pages for a sense of where you are in a chapter. No “time left in book/chapter” estimations.
If Bookshop hopes to move people away from Kindle, they need to seriously improve the reading experience in this app, ASAP, or all this fanfare about an alternative option will fall flat as soon as readers try reading something on the app.
Interesting choice to offer a toggle between infinite scroll and normal pagination; I guess that’s a cool feature. And the store is fine, although still pretty limited. But so, so disappointing how much is missing or messed up in the reader when so many eyes are on it right now.
I really hope the developers are prioritizing improvements to the reading experience above all else, or this is a non-starter.
Needs work
Tried the search function and couldn’t scroll through the list of hits—took a bunch of tries each time I tried to scroll up or down. Checked it a few times and same results. There’s a continuous scroll setting for reading ebooks, but it still makes you hit a button to go to the next page when you hit the end of a chapter, and it treated each poem in a poetry collection as a chapter. If you don’t select the annoying “continuous scroll” option the text is automatically two column, at least on the iPad, no matter how I rotated it, which is not how I want to read ebooks. Easily the worst commercial ebook reader I’ve encountered.
App Privacy
The developer, Bookshop, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
- Diagnostics
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Search History
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Information
- Seller
- Bookshop, Inc.
- Size
- 88.2 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
- Copyright
- © Bookshop, Inc.
- Price
- Free