West Academic Library
West Academic is the leading publisher of casebooks, treatises, study aids, and other legal education materials in the U.S. Founded on the principle of making legal information more accessible, and rooted in a long history of legal expertise and innovation, we’ve been a leader in legal education publishing for more than 100 years. Learn more at www.westacademic.com.
Category : Books & Reference
Reviews (18)
Navigation options within the app are sorely lacking. You have to click the phone's "back" button (twice) to close the book, going to the next or previous chapter requires scrolling all the way to the bottom of the page, scrolling up one more time, then clicking a notification at the bottom of the screen, just to advance to the next chapter (not helpful when going to a specific chapter). And it automatically increases the phone's brightness to max without the ability to override.
This app is absolutely terrible! The audio books rarely download on the first try. When you do get them downloaded they randomly stop playing. Often when this happens if you try to fix it the app will just crash. There are plenty of other times that the app will just crash for no reason. The crashing happens at least once per use sometimes more than once. If I could find this content anywhere else I'd be using it. I expected more from West!
It's just a very dry app that doesn't even give much control to the user. I don't have a capability to organize my books, can't even delete this annoying "Guide book" that comes with the app. Audio books often crashes while listening and I have to go back to find where I even stopped which wasted my time. Provide a speed play option because sometimes the reader puts me to sleep by their slow reading tone or I just need to do a quick review of the material. Please, improve! Thanks
It needs so much work. Very frustrating trying to study when it randomly uninstalled products and wont reinstall them. Plus the audio function often comes on even when paused. Some items never downloaded no matter how many times I tried. The service is great if you use it inconveniently on the browser. But the actual application needs work.
App doesn't work. I downloaded the user guide and it keeps giving me an error message that "input stream can't be null." None of my textbooks were shown on my account so I guess they aren't even compatible. I shouldn't have to contact technical assistance to get an app to work. Don't put it in the app store if your product doesn't work.
App is junk. Tried on a tablet, gives some weird error message. Tried it on my phone. For some reason an app to read books needs permission to "access my phone book and manage calls" Uhh...why? App starts and none of my books are there and if I open the "user guide" it doesn't let me past the cover page. Low and behold you actually use the Bookshelf app to access the ebooks. I think the app is just a scam to collect user info because you can't access books and all it does is ask for overly invasive permissions.
App crashes often and very rarely is it able to skip from one chapter to the next without forcing the app to close. Now it also requires me to redownload my audio supplement every single time I launch the app.
I installed, uninstalled, and installed again and still have the same problem- it won't even let me read the how to use the app book and just comes up with the "inputstream cannot be null" message every time. I can't even look up to try and find the book I actually want to read.
Utterly unusable. I wanted the ability to review for my classes without being at my desk. I got twenty minutes of bother trying to learn how to turn a page. Don't waste your time; use the desktop service or buy the book, if you somehow have the cash to burn.
App crashes in the middle of audio books and doesn't remember where it left off! It's infuriating! I'm trying to study for finals. I don't have time for this nonsense.
most ridiculous app ever... even the how to use the academic app book had no chapters in it to read !!!! And I can't access nothing. not even the study aids
Nothing worked initially but it eventually fixed itself. Not sure why it takes a day before everything to work tho
Great content, but the app crashes periodically enough to be annoying
Why does the app need permission to manage phone calls?
Awful! Why does an APP TO FACILITATE MY ACCESS TO OPTIONS FOR READING BOOKS IN MY CYBER SECURITY LAW PROGRAM NEED ACCESS RIGHTS TO READ MY DEVICE'S PHONE BOOK & MAKE CALLS? Why did this app confirm my address by a scan of the USPS database? While you are at it, why not require me to walk naked down Broadway in Manhattan at noon on Tuesdays every week. As a cyber security law student, these global intrusions into my personal files is unacceptable!
Is there any way to remove old books I no longer use from the app?
The app doesn't function
Doesn't work! I feel cheated!! I purchased an audio book from West Academic primarily for the convenience of having it on my phone and being able to access it whenever I had some free time but no network. Total rip off!! Initially, the app would require me to download the library every day. This was manageable so long as I remembered to do it while I was connected to Wi-Fi. BUT, for the last several days, I have been unable to download my books at all!! It just says "downloading" but- NOTHING!!