Perlego

A guide to our features, accessibility and troubleshooting

Using Perlego

Dive into your first book! A beginner's guide to reading ebooks on Perlego.

📖 Reading on Perlego

Learn how to write strong search queries with Smart Search to enhance your results & find precisely what you need in no time.

🔎 Time-saving tips for researching with Perlego's Smart Search

Learn what features you can use while reading books on Perlego such as adding notes, highlights, and bookmarks.

🧰 Ebook features and tools

Ebooks are available in PDF & EPUB formats. Understanding their differences will help you to improve your research and reading experience.

📀 PDFs vs. EPUBs: mastering ebooks for research

Curious about all that Perlego has to offer? Read on!

📚 What you get with your Perlego subscription

Find out how you can download ebooks within the Perlego mobile app for offline reading.

Downloading books 📲

Organise your resources, keep track of your reading activity, add external content, and share reading lists with others

🗂️ My Bookshelves

What content you can add to your Bookshelf and how to add it

➕ What content can be added to your Bookshelf?

Check out Perlego's automatic citation generator, including over 20 styles and in-text citations with page numbers

📄 References & citations

Your Library

Read Aloud is now available for a majority of books on Perlego's web and mobile app! Learn how our custom text-to-speech tool works.

Read Aloud 🔊📖

Get the most out of your reading without ever losing your place, just like with a physical book. Check out this must-have eReader feature!

🔖 Bookmarks

Find out which ebooks can be listened to on Perlego with our Read Aloud tool that offers text-to-speech. Now available on the app too!

🔊📖 Read Aloud Availability

Make the most of your highlights and notes with Notebook

🗒 Using Your Perlego Notebook

How to use our highlight feature within the app and browser

🖍️ Highlighting text

Love long quotes & reading print? Copy your notes & quotes from any book to use outside of Perlego. *Restrictions apply.

📑 Copy text and notes

Quick tricks to writing notes that accelerate your learning

🤸‍♀️ 3 Tricks to Better Notes

BeeLine's text colouring makes reading on screen easier and faster.

🐝 BeeLine Reader

Perlego's in-text referencing tool is available for our 6 most popular referencing styles

✍️ In-text citations

Read this article to find out how you can share an exact location in a book.

👣 Sharing a Location in a Book

Guide to the barcode scanner on the Perlego App

🛒 Using the Barcode Scanner in the Perlego App

We've added a timer to your eReader, it'll even prompt you to take a breather every 10 minutes to reflect on what you've just learnt!

⏲️ 1 simple trick to boost your knowledge retention

Learn how to adjust the margins within the eReader

↔️ Change page width

Perlego's newest feature, Smart Search, helps you find key excerpts & relevant books in our library using semantic search.

🔎 Meet your Smart Search

Whether you’re using tools like Zotero, EndNote, or Mendeley, effortlessly save and organise references directly from Perlego.

✂️ Manage references using external citation tools and web clippers

Now available in BETA, Research Assistant delivers cited & relevant responses to research questions, supported by academic titles on Perlego

🕵️ How to use the Research Assistant

.RIS files are now available to download straight from Perlego, making it simpler than ever to organise your research.

📚 Downloading .RIS files to manage reference lists

Features

A tutorial and all you need to know about Perlego translation

🌐 Translating Perlego Navigation

Perlego currently offers books in English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French and German (more to come!)

🌐 Languages on Perlego

Can't find a book you need in the library or found it but it’s unavailable? Submit a book request anytime.

🗳️ Suggest a book

Are you wondering how to change the language of the books you're searching for?

🗺️ Searching for Italian/German/Spanish Books

Accessibility

Read the below and follow the steps to get this sorted out as quickly as possible.

🤕 There's an issue with a Book

No fear, here's some first steps for solving messages that can appear on signing-up or logging-in

🔧 Quick Fixes for Common Error Messages

Read on for why a book might become unavailable and what to do

📚 The book I'm reading is no longer available

Are you wondering why some books are unavailable in your region?

🗺️ A book is unavailable in my region

Are you wondering whether you can get Perlego on your Kindle or other e-readers?

🪵 Kindles and Other Readers

Learn what to do if you are experiencing issues in our mobile app such as failed downloads, crashing, syncing delays, or long loading times

📲 App and book download troubleshooting

Read on to find out the minimum specifications for the Perlego app and why we no longer support some operating systems.

📱 The Perlego App Minimum Specifications

We support some browsers to a better extent than others, so you might experience some hiccups if you're using an older/less used browser

🤕 Trouble with your Browser

How to report content that goes against our Content Policy.

⚠️ Reporting Bookshelf content

Are you having issues with your library, such as using certain features or opening books on your browser? Read on for detailed support!

🔧 Troubleshooting Guidance for Browser Issues

Need help logging into your Perlego account? Check out this article for common issues and solutions.

Login and password support 🔐

Why does the message 'We are having trouble verifying if you are human' appear, and how can I resolve it?

'We are having trouble verifying if you are human'

Troubleshooting

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