Key Facts
• Access your books anytime anywhere.
Desktop,
laptop, tablet, or smartphone—Bookshelf
downloads files to your device or lets you access
online. So, study at home on your laptop, at school
on a campus machine, or on your smartphone on
the train. Do all three. Bookshelf keeps everything
in sync and at your fingertips.
• Support for rich media and interactivity.
Bookshelf supports rich media and interactivity.
In media-enhanced books, you watch processes,
see implications, and better understand the
concepts.
• Create study notes and collaborate with teachers
and classmates
. Highlight passages and add your
notes. Even better, subscribe to your friends and
teachers, and “follow” them as they make their own
notes and highlights. You can even search through
their notes.
• Increase study time efficiency by finding
important information faster.
You can search in
one book or all your books, words and/or pictures,
just your notes, or even your friends’ and teachers’
notes. Also, right-click any word to find definitions
immediately.
• Bookshelf allows for accessibility.
Bookshelf
applications are engineered to provide the best
possible access for impaired students. See our
accessibility page for more information.
How do I access VitalSource ebooks?
Desktop
Download your books to your personal computer
and access them in the VitalSource Bookshelf. They
are completely portable; use them whether you are
connected to the Internet or not.
Online
Left your computer back at the dorm? No problem.
Get your books online from any Internet-connected
computer: library, computer lab, cyber cafe, wherever.
Mobile
One of the key advantages of digital is the ability to
provide integrated multimedia product. Bookshelf®
helps your students get all the help that’s available
Is it possible to print? How about copy /paste?
The ability to print, copy and paste is built in. To
protect publishers, the number of pages that you can
print or copy is limited, usually to two pages at one
time. Note: when you copy/paste, the works cited
annotation conveniently stays with it, handy for citing
sources.
Can I have my books on two computers?
Yes – to make it convenient, your books can be used
simultaneously on two computers at any given time.
A l l S ub j e c t s
Lippincott Williams &Wilkins e-textbooks will
help you to study smarter and quickly find the
information you need. They’re convenient to buy
(and carry) and they save you money.
