The Palace Project

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Palace is a free, easy-to-use e-reader app that lets you find, check out, and read or listen to books from your local library.

It’s been said that libraries are “palaces for the people” and the Palace app gives you instant access to your local “palace” any time, right from the palm of your hand.

All you need to sign up is your library card! And even if your library isn’t using Palace yet, you can still read more than 10,000 books--from children’s books to classics to foreign language books--for free from our Palace Bookshelf.

The Palace app is built and maintained by The Palace Project, a not-for-profit division of LYRASIS working in partnership with Digital Public Library of America with funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. For more, visit https://thepalaceproject.org.

Find, check out, and read or listen to books from your local library.

Updated on

Aug 13, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.

This app may share these data types with third parties
App info and performance
This app may collect these data types
Personal info and App info and performance
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

272 reviews

Susan

December 26, 2024

App is very buggy. Locks up a lot. Asked for card number just to return a book. Have to reinstall it to get it to function properly. Edit: no longer makes me enter my card number to return but still locks up numerous times during each book. I need to close the app, clear the cache and reopen. Upon restarting it loses the spot where it locked up and returns to the previous location it was upon opening. Not good for driving because of this and just plain frustrating even when not driving.

58 people found this review helpful

RH Aguiar

August 18, 2026

I have only recently downloaded the app. I had high expectations though the reviews were quite poor. I am just into Chapter 2 14 minutes and the app has stopped 4 times and doesn't remain at the position when you hit play it goes back to some previous point. I am uninstalling this app and I will wait for the book on Libby. Maybe after a number of updates it will be able to compete with Libby.

Erika Do

June 25, 2026

Seems to have more books available than Libby did, but it feels very unfinished and buggy. No options on how to turn pages, you just tap on the far right side of the page, which means if you hold your phone in your left hand you can't reach the right side to turn pages. And sometimes at the end of a chapter, turning the page just doesn't work and you have to open up the chapter list to navigate to the next one manually.

5 people found this review helpful

What’s new

- Fixed page turning in fixed-layout (FXL) ebooks when using a keyboard, edge taps, or trackpad swipes — helpful on Chromebooks and devices with a connected keyboard.

For the full list of changes in this release, visit https://github.com/ThePalaceProject/android-core/releases/tag/palace-1.29.1.