App Profile: Cengage Read

megativecoefficents

Rating: 3/5

Hello I use this app a lot and stopped using it but recently started again since I have a 3 year subscription. Anyway I think the information and book selection is good so far but could be improved and also could be added too . More is better. Anyway my biggest issue with this app was that it would stop reading the text after every page how ever that has changed and is now automatically played endlessly this is great how ever the issue is that it sometimes reads copy rights and extra stuff that is not important. But the biggest issue to me is the voice is not fun to listen to it’s very monotone and robotic and can be frustrating to listen to after a few hours. There are a lot of options but they are still all very terrible to listen to and to robotic and sometimes it pronounces words incorrect. But the thing that I’d appreciate the most would be to add a voice that sounds more human like and not irritating thanks I appreciate this app a lot and only want to it to be improved on

Cassandra Springer

Rating: 1/5

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.

_Beverly14

Rating: 5/5

I just downloaded the app since I am taking a course that requires MindTap. I was able to use the app just fine! I saw a lot of bad reviews where people complain about this or that and honestly, ignore them. Someone said the online browser didn’t work so they were forced to use app, well they both work as you will soon find out after downloading this app. Someone else said highlighting didn’t work, worked just fine I was even able to add notes to my highlight and change its color. Scrolling through pages was easy it’s like any other program like Pearson where the chapter is split up in segments so the page you are on is the segment. I don’t know why people are complaining you don’t have to know rocket science to use this app. The only thing I would change is maybe making the text reader more human like, it sounds to much like a robot. I like to listen to the chapters being read so I can do other things at the same time and not spend hours watching a screen.