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Deseret Bookshelf LDS Books app for iPhone and iPad


4.2 ( 7472 ratings )
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Developer: Deseret Book Company
Free
Current version: 5.2.2, last update: 8 months ago
First release : 05 Apr 2011
App size: 96.41 Mb

Search, study, and listen to the entire Deseret Book library with this powerful app. Deseret Bookshelf has been completely redesigned, making it the most comprehensive LDS audiobook player and eBook reader available.

Start with 8 free eBooks and access to over 200 other free titles. Then you can either purchase individual ebooks, talks and audiobooks OR subscribe to Bookshelf PLUS and access the entire audiobook library and over 1500 ebooks and talks.

Discover
● Get recommendations on audiobooks and eBooks.
● Find plenty of free titles, ready for you to enjoy.
● Download an audiobook or eBook with a single tap.
● Add titles to your digital wishlist
● View the items you last opened on any of your synced devices.

Audiobook player
● Listen to over 700 audiobooks and talks.
● Navigate between chapters and fast-forward or rewind by 30 seconds.

Better reading
● Select Normal, Night, or Sepia reading modes.
● Customize fonts, font size, and line spacing.
● Switch between Page-view and scroll-view options.

Enhanced study
● Switch between several open eBooks with tabbed reading.
● Save and restore study sessions with several items open at once.
● Access and back-up your notes, highlights, and bookmarks across devices.

Universal Search
● Search the entire Deseret Book digital library (over 6,000,000 pages) in seconds.
● Narrow your search through your personal library, the standard works, a conference session, or a single book.
● Find exact phrases, any, or all search terms.
● Easily switch between your library and search results

Quote Vault
● Access thousands of quotes in our quote vault which you can find by author, topic, or source.
● Get a spiritual thought or to help you begin your day right.
● Mark favorite quotes and add them to the vault.
● Find the source of favorite quotes, and explore the content more deeply.
● Receive daily inspiration with a new quote delivered to your device. Set a reminder on a daily or weekly basis.

Social sharing
● Easily share favorite passages with anyone through email, Facebook, and Twitter with image quotes.
● Tell your networks what books and authors you’re reading

Download the app and create an account to receive 8 free classic LDS titles, plus a free audiobook:

1) Increase in Learning - David A. Bednar
2) Power of Everyday Missionaries - Clayton M. Christensen
3) Beginning of Better Days - Sheri Dew, Virginia Pearce
4) Be Your Best Self - Thomas S. Monson
5) Jesus the Christ - James E. Talmage
6) Lectures on Faith - Joseph Smith
7) Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith
8) Gospel Doctrine - Joseph F. Smith

Plus the entire Standard Works, LDS lesson manuals, and General Conference talks. LDS scripture references within eBooks are linked to the entire standard works, allowing you to easily explore scriptural connections within your library.

PLUS your choice of the following audio:
● Recovering Charles
● Joseph Smith, The Early Years
● Jesus of Nazareth, Volume 1

Shop our eBook store for over 3,000 LDS eBook titles and other world classics from your favorite authors. Shop our audio store for over 500 titles. Download many official Church publications for free, including curriculum materials and reference books.

Bookshelf PLUS includes access to every single Deseret Audiobook and over 1500 ebooks and talks.

Need more help? Email us at [email protected]

Pros and cons of Deseret Bookshelf LDS Books app for iPhone and iPad

Deseret Bookshelf LDS Books app good for

Thanks to this app I can download inspiring books in a matter of minutes even from my remote place in France :)
This a very good, easy to use and parctical app. I recommand it for those who are interested by buying and reading books fron Deseret.
I so love this app easy to use. I love the multiple tabs so you can read and studies many books easily
Its really easy to use! And you can format the text as you want! I liked a lot!
Just loved this app. The fact I can get those LDS books just amaze me!
Its so good to have a very easy way to find so many inspiring books. Its easy to highlight parts during your reading and your personal study!!

Some bad moments

If you are looking for religion, this may be for you, but if your looking for an ereader, you are in the wrong place. You will only find a small handful (9) books on the gospel and info on "the prophet Joseph smith" my one star really should be zero. Wish the description was clear, wouldnt have wasted my time. To have such a high rating, they have clearly told their congregation to all give it 5 star reviews.
If you are just reading, this app is ok but the Kindle reader is better. If you study and highlight then dont buy books for this app, it will not retain a highlight made in the top paragraph of a page.
Not recommended. UPDATE: The latest version now insists on forcing me to view Deseret Books website in Safari, every single time it launches. What a waste of time. The latest version of this app has made many improvements, but its still the worst book reader out there. If a book is available from anywhere else I will buy it there first. I only use this app if I have no other choice. The scrolling is really weird (sometimes the scroll bar dissapeared completely), switching between pages doesnt always work, and some popup windows dont have scroll bars at all. Basically, they have gone after all these flashy bits but still havent got the fundamentals right.
Built in remote on headphones doesnt work at all for audiobooks on iPhone. Have to pull phone out of pocket to pause or start audiobook and doesnt resume after phone call. Very annoying when walking and someone tries to talk to you and you are trying to get to your buried phone to stop the audiobook. Can adjust volume remotely and thats it. The app itself is frequently slow to respond to touch. May not start or stop playing when touched and so you keep touching it and when it finally responds it may flicker on and off for the number of times it was touched. Similarly, the 15 sec rewind may not work for 4 or 5 touches and then it bounces back as many times as it was touched it. Again very annoying. This app is enough to keep me from buying LDS audiobooks if this is the only app they can be played in. Terrible app for audiobooks.
I dont like this bookreader, because: - There are no pages in the book in a chapter. There is only one page for the whole chapter - It doesnt save the place where you stopped a reading and go to the other App. Thats why you have to remember where exactly did you stop and look for it every time.
I recently bought a Book of Mormon commentary and navigating the long chapters js extremely unpleasant. Please fix the page browsing issues.

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