Shelfie – Discounted & Free Ebooks & Audiobooks app for iPhone and iPad

4.6 ( 256 ratings )

Lifestyle Book
Developer: BitLit Media Inc.

Free

Current version: 2.8.0, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 03 Mar 2014
App size: 117.65 Mb

Shelfie catalogs your library when you take a photo of your bookshelf. Shelfie is the only app that helps you to convert your print books to digital or audio – save up to 90% off the digital copy when you own the physical book. Shelfie helps you discover great new reads, and sends you limited time deals.

CATALOG: Take a photo of your bookshelf and Shelfie will identify your books. You can also search titles, scan barcodes, or import your book collection from Goodreads. Its the easiest way to create an inventory of your library.

DIGITIZE: Shelfie helps you digitize your paper library. Featuring +450,000 ebooks and audiobooks from over 1800 publishers. Save up to 90% off the digital version when you own the print edition. You can expect about 25% of your paper books to be eligible for these digital bundle deals. New books added weekly

DISCOVER: Shelfie curates recommendations just for you. As your Library evolves, so will your recommendations. Spend less time searching and more time enjoying the books you love.

DEALS: Shelfie alerts you to limited-time deals on ebooks matching your interests. From best sellers to critically acclaimed authors you’ll find great bargains here.

ORGANIZE: Shelfie lets you organize and manage your library using tags.

CONNECT: Keep up with what your friends are reading. Explore your friends’ shelves and collections from around the world in.

What’s available on Shelfie?
Not all publishers and authors have made their books available on Shelfie yet. You can expect about 25% of your print book collection to be available on Shelfie (depending on your library). When a book is available on Shelfie the publisher drops the digital price by up to 90% because you’ve already paid for your print copy.

In-app purchases
• Shelfie is free to use. We offer both free and discounted ebooks and audiobooks as bundles when you own the print edition.
• While most ebooks are DRM-Free, some publishers have provided their ebooks with DRM. Please email [email protected] if you’re having trouble with DRM. We’re here to help.

Pros and cons of Shelfie – Discounted & Free Ebooks & Audiobooks app for iPhone and iPad

Shelfie – Discounted & Free Ebooks & Audiobooks app good for

Now I can see the number of books Im considering before even grabbing them off the shelf. Very handy app.

If youre a bookworm this is a very cool app. The new live Shelfie results are pretty cool. Also I love the new audiobook player. The new in-app reader is awesome.

I was about to buy some ebooks for a trip camping, but found some great ebooks I wanted to reread on here for free. Save yourself some money and take a shelfie.

Nice and practical concept, I have found new interesting titles on this app, the app is easy to use and very helpful in extending your book librarys, Love how it works

This app is an innovative idea, the biggest book library from people all round the world. I have spent hours browsing and found lots of worthful titles and you can also find new friends who have the same hobby as yours

I read a lot so I used to go to my local library every week if I could but they had a limited selection of the types of books I read and I had to return them after I finished. I have to be honest, I may have cried a few tears of joy when I found this app. Since that time I’ve read hundreds of books and still thae thousands to choose from, all for free without having to leave house. This app is really awesome

Some bad moments

I was so excited about this app because, I thought, I could clear my bookshelves! No. There are so few books that its not worth the bother. What a disappointment!

Tbh I thought the same thing, that Id be able to clear my shelfs but they dont have a lot of my books and the ones they did I had to pay for. Why would I want to repay for a book I already paid for. It was just disorienting.

This is the singularly most frustrating app I have come across. I have loaded it on my phone on several occasions only to delete it in utter frustration each time (after multiple attempts to get it to work). I feel the concept is great, but the app (at least in my case) is so inclined to crash, freeze up and otherwise not work that I am conceding defeat. Im guessing it is not compatible with iOS 6.

Of the 500+ books on my shelf this app didnt have access to a single one.

The biggest problem of all is the lack of ebooks available. I suppose if my shelf was full of dollar bin books I would have better luck finding titles in the bitlit library. I guess I shouldnt be surprised. Offering free ebooks with physical copies would be a book industry game-changer and anything more current and best sellers would not be coming from a small time app. Other problems include having to sign in with Facebook or google+ and having to actually write my name in all caps on the copyright page. I like my books kept pristine. Im not going deface my property for the sake of an app that wont even have it in their system. Like I said, this app has a lot of nice ideas, but they really arent realistic.

So far not one book I own is eligible. Not only that, Im not sure Ill claim them if they are as I dont really want to have to deface my books by writing in them. As well, I wish there was a way to delete a shelfie. Before becoming familiar with the app I took multiple images of the same shelf and now all those books are in my list multiple times. As I said, good in theory but maybe not so much in practice... At least not without some fixes.

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