Cengage Read
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User Reviews for Cengage Read
The Previous Cengage App Was Better
Cengage Read is missing many of the features that I used to help study and better interact with my courses. The new app has many bugs that need to be ironed out I frequently get kicked out of the app and are forced to login again. The previous app would not do this and always retained my session/login allowing me to quickly get going. Plus not being able to see upcoming due dates it a complete deal breaker. Sometimes I don’t always have a computer with me to login but I always have my phone and not having that is tuff. I don’t always nor want to have a laptop near me just to check upcoming assignments. Even parts of the reading program don’t display correctly. Having parts of the textbook navigation getting in the way of the book. I hope these issues get ironed out or updated since I love having access to my Cengage on my mobile devices.
The Worst Textbook App
I never have any interest in writing reviews for an app, but because this app is absolutely horrendous AND I’m required to use it everyday for school… I figured this was a worthy effort. There aren’t any instructions on the fact that you have to add your textbook to your library even if you purchased it. It zooms in and out on the text for absolutely no reason at all, and most times it will cut off half the text and won’t adjust appropriately even when you try to zoom out to reset the view. Highlighting is horrendous because it wants to glitch out and highlight whatever random text it wants. The view of the textbook is quite unprofessional in my opinion. It’s like they put it in the app without even thinking about how it would look to people reading it. You can’t even read most tables that they insert in the text. It’s an absolute joy to deal with this. In this day and age, I have no clue why two of my professors would choose this option. And yes, MindTap was required for me so I had to get the digital version and the unlimited subscription is much cheaper than buying physical textbooks and the addition software. Please, for the love of learning, don’t make me hate my class because this app and website are absolutely archaic.
Cengage Read Review
I have loved the cengage-read app ever since the relaunch. Specifically, I use this app to read my business textbook. I love how I can highlight, add notes, listen as an audiobook, and bookmark specific pages. Most importantly, I love how I can read my textbook wherever I go. I will be traveling to Florence this upcoming spring and cannot wait to have the option to access my materials in whatever country I will be visiting. I would recommend this out to everyone and anyone.
Terrible App
I never write reviews for apps but this is truly the most frustrating app that I have ever used for reading. Were it not for the fact that I am required to use it for school, I would not use it. No matter how I adjust the font or zoom, my text ALWAYS gets cut off. Sometimes if I am lucky, it’ll show the top of the page when I make the font as small as possible but it is usually short lived because the app zooms in by itself. Given how expensive renting or buying from this company is, I had hoped they’d be able to produce an app that actually allows me to read the book. So frustrating and upsetting. Please do better Cengage.
I can’t believe a real person was paid to design this app
Cengage Read is such a poorly designed app that it reminds me of my 4th-grade “website” projects, which worked great until you tried to click anything on the page. Somehow, every possible function on this app manages to have some sort of issue. Want to highlight a section of the text? Have fun trying to find it later when an entirely different section has become highlighted. That’s if you even can highlight anything on the page, because and touch of the screen to the far left or right side of the page will trigger a flip to the next page. This app is simply straight out of the Stone Ages and I am only using it out of desperation. I would so much rather carry a ten-pound textbook all day long.
Unable to use on iOS anymore
I was using this on and off to cram in some studying, reading, review etc., in between daily tasks, work, life, etc., when I didn’t have my computer handy to sit down and read online. It was ok until the latest iOS update. It was buggy, before, would crash and skip pages or not allow you to highlight, but I could read it. That was the important part. Now you cannot even view the content on the top and bottom of the pages and it won’t allow scrolling up or down to see this, it just skips to the next page. Please fix! It’s a great tool to use for busy students!
Updated fast customer service
As you can see below I was very stressed about not having access to the text on my iPad. Well that was yesterday. I asked and I received. In one day! That is stellar service. If something isn’t right with Cengage reach out to them. Even if you’re cranky and stressed they want to help. And they did! Here begins yesterday’s rant: I purchased the course DIRECTLY FROM CENGAGE for two years with the Cengage and e-text book. I downloaded this useless app signed in only to find NOTHING. NOTHING AT ALL. I can only access my TWO YEAR purchase via Canvas. Which means I CANNOT LOOK AT THE BOOK WHILE DOING MY CANVAS OR CENGAGE WORK! WTAF?!? EPIC FAILURE FOR A COMPANY PROFESSING TO BE LEADERS IN ACADEMIA TO BE THIS FAR BEHIND IN REMOTE LEARNING. YES I AM YELLING, I AM SO IRRITATED WITH CENGAGE!
Impossible for students with vision impairment
Not only is this app horrid, and the voice options terrible, but it reads the pages so poorly and out of order, any student trying to learn would lose track. It reads the page number, title, and text listed at the bottom of every page before it begins reading that page. Then it proceeds to read the second column on the page 1st and the first column on the page 2nd. Then it reads the captions underneath each of the images, followed by reading the text and title at the bottom of the page again. When you turn the page it repeat this process all over again reading the second call them first and the first column second.
Needs assistance!
This app need a lot of help! There are no page numbers listed on the pages only if you go into the index of the book. This is very annoying seeing how I’m using the textbooks for school and am required to cite the page info. The pages also do not adjust and the text overlaps in some areas which makes it hard to read. It’s a hassle to get to the highlights and notes. And there is hardly any options for the text settings just to adjust the font size. It would be nice to scroll or use a darker setting when reading. This is one of the underdeveloped app that I have used for reading textbooks and wish they would choose a different one!
Unbelievably bad
I honestly don’t know how it’s possible to have an ereader app this bad in 2023? It’s not a new or hard to master technology. The “pages” aren’t sized correctly to fit on the screen, and it’s possible to zoom out to show that it’s just a long canvas of different blocks that make up the “pages” but trying to scroll along to read will move you up and down. Turning your phone to try to fit two pages on the screen does god knows what but you end up with a totally blank screen that won’t change. A literal port of a continuous scroll web page would be a massive improvement over whatever they’re trying to do. Or just … a pdf of the book.
Description
Read your eTextbook and study on the go with the Cengage Read app. Cengage Read lets students study whenever – and wherever – they want. Take notes, highlight and bookmark info, have the text read out loud with text-to-speech and easily search keywords and jump to pages with the table of contents.
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