How Does Everand Work? The Beginner’s Guide

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Scribd had a huge library of documents, eBooks, audiobooks, newspapers, magazines, sheet music, and more under a single brand.

It created confusion among book lovers who searched for audiobooks or eBooks on the platform. In November 2023, Scribd divided its content into 2 products: Everand and Scribd.

Everand is home of stories and knowledge offering eBooks, audiobooks, podcasts, newspapers, magazines, sheet music, and more.

Scribd offers access to documents such as academic papers, legal documents, and manuals.  

Related Article: Everand subscription review

How Does Everand Subscription Work

Everand offers monthly and annual premium membership plans. You can access 3 platforms under one subscription plan.

  • Everand: Includes audiobooks, eBooks, podcasts, magazines, newspapers, and sheet music
  • Scribd: Includes community-uploaded documents such as academic papers, legal documents, and manuals without ads
  • SlideShare: Access and download presentations and professional content without ads

With Everand subscription, you can access the full catalog of audiobooks and eBooks for streaming without paying for the individual titles. Consider it as Netflix of books.

Everand offers hundreds of thousands of eBooks and audiobooks in its library, including bestsellers, award winners, original content, and new releases.

Although Everand gives its members unlimited access to their library, there are monthly limits on some titles in their catalog.

‘These limits are caused by each subscriber’s individual recent reading/listening activity’, according to Everand

If you encounter a limit on a particular title, it will be inaccessible to you until the next billing cycle.

You can read/ listen to other titles in the meantime. The access to Everand Originals, podcasts, magazines, or articles is unlimited.

Here are 5 important things to know about how Everand subscription works

  1. Everand offers 30-day free trials of their monthly and annual membership plans which means you will enjoy the first month for free
  2. You will be charged one month after signing up for the trial (unless you have canceled the free trial). Your subscription is a recurring payment that you can cancel anytime
  3. You need to cancel the subscription 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period to avoid the payment for next billing month
  4. You can turn off the auto-renew option from your account page anytime
  5. Everand content can be accessed through a browser on your computer and other devices. For mobile devices, I recommend using Everand apps

Everand regularly updates its catalog with fresh content.

You can cancel you subscription anytime by going to Everand website.

  • Sign in to your account and navigate to Your Account Page
  • In the Subscription & Payment Details section, click on the End My Subscription or Cancel Subscription option
  • After confirmation, your subscription will be canceled successfully

If you have purchased the subscription through the App Store, you can cancel it using your Apple account.

Learn more about how to cancel your Everand subscription

Related Article: Answer to 20 FAQs about Everand

How the Free Trial Works

Everand offers a generous free trial for their monthly and annual membership plans. You can join the free trial from Everand website or app.

Here are steps to sign up for Everand’s free trial

  • Start by clicking on Read free for 30 days on Everand website or app
Everand website trial sign up

  • Evernad allows you sign up for the free trial with your Google, Facebook, and Apple accounts. You can also use your email account to create a new account. I will use my Gmail account to gin up
join Everand trial

  • Select the free trial for Monthly or Annual plan by clicking on Start your free trial option
Everand monthly and annual membership plans

  • Next, provide the payment onformation [PayPal, Google Pay, or bank card]. You will only be charged after your free trial if you decide to continue
Everand payment options

  • After you provide the payment information, click on Start your free trial to proceed
credit card details

You will receive a successful sign up message

free trial started

You will also get a confirmation email with the trial end date and a reminder on day 14 of the free trial about the end date so you have enough time to cancel the trial or continue.

If you do not cancel the free trial before the expiry date (24 hours before the expiry date), your payment method will be charged for next month’s subscription charges.

How Everand App Works

The best way to access the Everand content is through the Everand app. The app has 5 main sections, accessible from the bottom navigation bar including Home, Top Charts, Discover, Saved, and Account

Everand app sections

  • Home: This section contains recommendations for you inspired by your past listening/ reading history. You can also find bestselling titles and readers’ favorite titles here.
  • Top Charts: You can find the most popular titles here that are generating buzz from critics, NYT, and more. The filters allow you to display top charts from different categories and you can choose the format (eBooks or Audiobooks)
  • Discover: This section helps you to find your next listen. You can browse Everand’s entire catalog from here. Browse content by categories or search for a title from the top search bar
  • Saved: You can ‘save’ a title to locate it easily by tapping on the Saved option from bottom navigation bar. It is like your Library in other audiobook apps (Audible, Audiobooks.com etc).
  • Account: This section has your account information, FAQs and support, audio player settings, downloads, notification settings, language preferences, and more.

To listen to your first audiobook, follow the steps below

  • Tap on the Discover option from the bottom navigation bar and search for the title from the top Search Bar
Everand discover option

  • I have searched for How to win friends and influence people and selected Audiobooks as book format [you can also select ‘eBooks’ format to get the eBook version]
search audiobook on Everand

  • Tap the book title from the search results and then tap on Listen option to start listening. I also recommend saving the title by tapping on the Save option to access it easily in the Saved section
listen to everand audiobook

  • The audiobook will start playing. The app player has the following controls and settings
everand player controls and settings

You can also search for an eBook by tapping on the Discover option and searching the title from the top search bar. Next, select eBooks as format and tap on the title you want to read.

You can start reading the eBook in the app and also save it for easy access from the Saved section.

Tap on the More option to access

  • Create a Bookmark
  • Save for Later
  • Download
  • Sharing option
  • About book
  • Report an issue

Tapping on the Fonts gives you access to

  • Font choice
  • Alignment
  • Font size
  • Brightness
  • Theme choice

You can also explore other types of content including newspapers, magazines, sheet music, and more through the app’s Discover section.

I hope you have a clear idea of how Everand subscription, free trial, and app work. Everand offers a free trial so I recommend checking out their catalog to see if it’s worth it for you.

Sohail Ahmed

I love Audiobooks and this blog features my first-hand experience with all major audiobook apps and services … Know More


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