How to read Bookshare Books with the Go Read app

How to read Bookshare Books with the Go Read app

Go Read is Bookshare’s accessible ebook reader app for Android devices. Go Read is available for free from the google play store and is compatible with Android devices running Android 4.0 ice cream sandwich or above. Search for “Go Read” or “Bookshare” and select “install”.

There are two separate menus in Go Read—the drawer menu and the more options menu. Within the drawer menu you can open your downloaded books and search and download titles from Bookshare’s collection. Under the “more options” menu you can adjust the settings.

To start, launch Go Read on your device and select the “drawer menu”. Under “my books” you can view your previously downloaded books by author, title, or recent downloads. Select the book’s title and then select the read button to read your book.

You can search the Bookshare collection by title, author, ISBN, latest books, popular books, or newspapers and magazines by selecting the “search Bookshare” button. If you're not already logged in, you will be prompted here to enter in your Bookshare email address and password, then select the log in button.

When you locate a book select the book’s title, then select the download button. Once the book has downloaded, select the “Book downloaded! Read book button”.

Within the more options menu you can access Go Read’s settings, including both visual and font settings. Select the appearance button to adjust the screen’s brightness and orientation. Select the text button to edit the font family, size, style, and paragraph spacing.

To use Go Read’s audio open the book you’d like to read and select the play button on the navigation bar to turn on text to speech. Go Read’s audio will begin reading from the top of the current page. You can navigate throughout the book using the previous section and next section buttons on the navigation bar.

Go Read utilizes any voice installed on the Android device. To install additional voices, open the google play store and search for text to speech voices. Popular options include Acapela and Ivona voices.

To change your selected voice select the apps button on you Android device and go to settings. Under the system section, select the accessibility button. Select the text-to-speech output button and select your preferred text to speech engine.