Cengage Read Hack 1.0.4 + Redeem Codes

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.

This app fails visually when shown images it’s not easy to follow along .. also sometimes it ready text in the page that are not needed to be read like copy write numbers and also page numbers like the one on the corner of images .. also it’s really hard to read on phone so i use mirroring from my phone to tv and on some books like for math it’s zoomed out and text can not be made bigger or smaller you have to zoom in but than it zoomed out automatically after each sentence.. my biggest issue is that the audio voices are also not that good I mean the selection of voices is bad to worse than to terrible .. it’s already hard to listen to a robotic monotone voice but you have darth vader as a option like why !!! I mean just a simple voice that sounds more human would be great also there are a lot of pronunciation issues .. and in general the app isn’t bad but it has issue small issues that make it bad .. my choice for replying is because I like using this app but it’s hard sometimes because the complications and small issues get to be time consuming and somewhat annoying to have to do (turning pages ) and sometimes not being able to skip the copyright information is weird also the extra i information like legal property rights .. and text sizing for math books and images .. many more improvements also but it’s not a bad app just has a lot of small issues

Like so many others I am required to use this app it’s terrible. The books are never formatted correctly despite being Cengage published books. Whenever I open the app it says “error”. I am not impressed with a lot of the content from Cengage and I feel frustrated that I am forced to use their products for my classes. It feels coercive and I really really don’t like it.

I have to pay for products I don’t like and wouldn’t use normally and their products have such low quality standards, but if you you have a captive customer base, I guess the quality isn’t the primary concern.

For books or documents Adobe acrobat & Apple Books can manage documents much better than this. I keep manuals for my car and major appliances in acrobat and have much more ease using and reading the documents. I have several ebooks (some free some paid) in Apple Books and that app also has a far better user experience than this!

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.

Zero stars if I could. It only have one job. Read their overpriced textbooks aloud. The app changes voices every page, gets stuck, some of those voices are things like cello.

None of the voices are understandable they’re all AI generated crap or sound like they’ve just sucked a tank of helium, and at least four of them read in musical instrument - I kid you not. In this day and age they should be able to have a decent voice read those books. They could afford to pay somebody on Fiverr a few hundred bucks to record their stupid books. This is app is completely useless unless when the page turns you want to hear it read to you in violin. Just go with your regular app that comes with your phone. It will be 1000 times better. Cengage is a money making crap publisher and it’s unbelievable to me that anyone in education could perform this poorly. F-

I was already really hesitant to use this app as I hate having to use anything outside of Apple Books or kindle. I tried using the spoken content on my iPad & iPhone to listen to the book because the voices they have on the app are SOOOO robotic and hard to listen to. Tried using spoken content through my iPad and iPhone and neither read more than a page at once like how it usually can on other apps. So I thought I’d power through and use the read aloud within the Cengage app and it did the SAME thing. This is super counterproductive and forces me to start the player on every page. This is even more frustrating considering the layout of the book includes only a paragraph or so per page. Please fix this! This is super inaccessible for those who really need spoken content.

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!

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.

I've been using the application for about a month and waited to leave my review to fairly assess the functionality. This app is trash. It doesn't even allow the text reading feature to read highlighted text, it just skips over highlighted text and resumes reading what's not highlighted, or sometimes the speech function doesn't even work. I updated the app and couldn't even get past the terms and conditions popup. It asked me to decline or accept, I tapped accept and it didn't recognize it, only the decline and close option was recognized, which proceeds to sign you out. This app needs better development and more testing, it's not good. I don't even want to install the next update because this most recent one was a pain.

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!