CLUSTER STUDENTS-ACCESS-ANNOTATE · 20 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2014-05-29
Student textbook e-reader apps
This cluster consists of mobile e-reader applications for students, enabling reading, highlighting, annotating, note-taking, and generating study aids from digital textbooks and course materials. The dated history shows isolated entries scattered across 2010–2026, appearing in sporadic months with no consistent pattern. Pearson+ | Study Prep & eTexts leads the traction list, ranking highest in activity signal among the three members.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 1 ai-built · 2 hand-coded · 17 unlabelled
Operator · 2 hobby · 16 commercial · 1 open source · 1 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01Pearson+ | Study Prep & eTexts0★18 dayslivecommercialMobile app providing access to digital textbooks with short video explanations, flashcards, and note-taking for college students.
- 02inkmark0★21 days—hand-codedhobbyWeb app that combines e-book reading and note-taking with annotation, term definitions, and review cards.
- 03smartedu-textbook-library0★25 days—Desktop app that provides an offline library of textbook resources from the user's SmartEdu account.
- 04Reader+0★1 molivecommercialEbook reader that provides offline access, note-taking, bookmarking, and supplemental multimedia for learning materials.
- 05Yuzu eReader0★2 molivecommercialeReader app for textbooks that lets students read, highlight, and annotate digital course materials on mobile devices.
- 06ReadAnywhere0★3 molivecommercialMobile ebook reader providing access to digital textbooks, adaptive assignments, note-taking, and highlighting for students on a publisher's learning platform.
- 07Elsevier eBooks+0★2 molivecommercialMobile app that provides offline access to medical ebooks with note-taking, highlighting, and flashcard creation for healthcare students and professionals.
- 08Kortext0★19 dayslivecommercialProvides access to digital textbooks and study materials from multiple publishers, with reading, annotation, citation, and cloud storage tools for learners.
- 09Perlego: Books & Textbooks0★1 molivecommercialDigital library offering over a million academic textbooks with highlighting, notes, offline reading, and text-to-speech for students.
- 10Bookshelf0★2 molivecommercialMobile app for reading, highlighting, and studying purchased digital textbooks offline with flashcards and audio narration.
- 11Scroll eBooks0★3 molivecommercialMobile app for reading and annotating purchased textbooks, with offline access and keyword search across the library.
- 12Kitaboo Player0★13 dayslivecommercialInteractive eBook reader app that integrates text, audio, video, and annotations, with classroom analytics for instructors and learners.
- 13Wiley Reader0★2 molivecommercialEducational app that reads Wiley textbooks, supports offline access, text-to-speech, and syncs notes, highlights, and bookmarks across devices.
- 14Macmillan Learning eBook0★6 mostalelivecommercialMobile ebook reader that lets students read digital textbooks, highlight, take notes, make flashcards, and listen aloud.
- 15Elmouyasser Education0★9 mostalelivecommercialMobile app offering textbooks, course summaries, practice exercises, quizzes, flashcards, and instructional videos for students preparing for baccalaureate exams.
- 16miEbooks0★4 molivecommercialE-reader app that lets students annotate e-book sections, highlight text, generate study summaries, and access offline multimedia resources for institutional learning.
- 17Revel by Pearson0★7 mostalelivecommercialMobile app delivering interactive digital textbooks with quizzes, notes, and offline reading, syncing progress across devices for college students.
- 18VNR-SmartBook0★11 mostale—ai-builthobbyApp that provides digital course materials, notes, and academic resources for students at a specific college.
- 19pearson-reader-plus-full-lang0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceApp that reads Pearson digital books for students and readers.
- 20eBooks by Inkling0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedcommercialInteractive ebook platform that delivers multimedia textbooks and guides for studying and learning across many subjects.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.