The Palace Project
2.6star
59 reviews
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About this app
Palace is a free, easy-to-use e-reader app that lets you find, check out, and read or listen to books from your local library.
It’s been said that libraries are “palaces for the people” and the Palace app gives you instant access to your local “palace” any time, right from the palm of your hand.
All you need to sign up is your library card! And even if your library isn’t using Palace yet, you can still read more than 10,000 books--from children’s books to classics to foreign language books--for free from our Palace Bookshelf.
The Palace app is built and maintained by The Palace Project, a not-for-profit division of LYRASIS working in partnership with Digital Public Library of America with funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. For more, visit https://thepalaceproject.org.
It’s been said that libraries are “palaces for the people” and the Palace app gives you instant access to your local “palace” any time, right from the palm of your hand.
All you need to sign up is your library card! And even if your library isn’t using Palace yet, you can still read more than 10,000 books--from children’s books to classics to foreign language books--for free from our Palace Bookshelf.
The Palace app is built and maintained by The Palace Project, a not-for-profit division of LYRASIS working in partnership with Digital Public Library of America with funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. For more, visit https://thepalaceproject.org.
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Ratings and reviews
2.5
52 reviews
emily Miller
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March 26, 2024
I love the access to ebooks, but I cannot stand how the bookmarks don't work correctly 😭 I'm not sure if anyone else has experienced this, but everytime I try to go back to a bookmarked spot it takes me to the beginning of the chapter instead. And if I lock my phone it goes back to the biggining of the chapter. It's super frustrating as a mom who has to lock her phone every few minutes to take care of my toddler.
2 people found this review helpful
unlifeoftheparty
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December 28, 2023
I keep having this issue where when I get to the end of an audiobook chapter, there will be a bunch of time left in the chapter, but there is no audio, just silence and the chapter timer continuing to count down, and if I fast forward, it skips back to a random place in the book. I have to manually go in to the beginning of each chapter and hit play again. It doesn't do it with every book, just some.
8 people found this review helpful
LYRASIS
January 3, 2024
Hi unlifeoftheparty, and thank you for using the Palace app! We’re sorry to hear that you’ve run into some technical issues, and would love to help. If you contact us at appreview@thepalaceproject.org with the specifics surrounding your experience, we’re more than happy to open a support ticket.
spencer parker
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December 5, 2023
Well, there are reviews dating back months about how audiobooks can not be played. I regret to inform you that I downloaded the app for the first time today, and audiobooks give an error message that they can not be played. No reason, no troubleshooting. I only use audiobooks unless I'm reading a graphic novel, so... the app is useless to me.
6 people found this review helpful
LYRASIS
December 11, 2023
Hi Spencer, and thank you for trying the Palace app! We have recently completed updates to support audiobooks, however there may be other issues impacting your access. If you contact us at appreview@thepalaceproject.org with the specifics surrounding your experience, we’re more than happy to open a support ticket and investigate further.
What's new
* Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the app to display a blank screen after resuming from the background.
* Fixed a bug that sometimes caused reading position to reset to the beginning of a chapter.
For the full list of changes in this release, visit https://github.com/ThePalaceProject/android-core/releases/tag/palace-1.11.2.
