I'm supposed to be doing homework, but I'm so frustrated with the site that I had to write this review. I would not recommend wasting time or money with this app unless you're required to for class. There is no excuse to not have a user and mobile friendly website during our society as it stands today with technology. I have issues with words overlapping or it displaying a couple letters before going to the next line to finish each word down the whole page. You'll need to skip one or two questions to find the relevant video. I have noticed they place videos on each question, but the videos rarely have anything to do with the question being asked. I have to constantly switch between landscape and portrait modes to be able to skip questions or submit assignments while on a mobile device. If this is their attempt at mobile friendly it is hands down one of the worst I have ever seen. Plus, I have issues with the site outside my mobile experience.
How a Textbook company cannot make the "Connect" website mobile friendly is beyond me. You also have to select the text you want to markup by dragging your finger around for an unholy amount of time before the markup options even show up, because as i mentioned earlier, you cannot draw on the book with Apple Pencil. Also, seeing as this app is geared towards iPads, the fact that Apple Pencil does not work with it is absurd. There are very few markup options they have four highlighter colors and don’t even have a handwriting option. Moreover, the markup features are absolutely pathetic. The pages are all strangely different lengths and the application stops you at the end of a page so you have to swipe multiple times before you can access the next page. I put continuous scroll in quotes because it isn’t even continuous. First of all, “continuous scroll” is the only option. The entire app is the most inconvenient and poorly formatted. You’re better off taking pictures of every single page of your textbook and using photos on your phone than using this app. I am being forced to use this app for school because of school, but if you have ANY CHOICE WHATSOEVER, DO NOT USE THIS APP. I don’t understand how such a big company like McGraw Hill could come up with such an utterly lousy app. I hope professors in the future will stay away from McGraw Hill products all together because the snout of money paid for this textbook and the lack of accessibility is absolutely outrageous. Since that KY worked one time I have deleted and redownload this app 5 times and it still dies not work.
Why would you prevent people that can’t see digital content very well from being able to have the content read to them?!?! If I were any more blind than I currently am I would not be able to use this app at all so those with vision impairment should STAY AWAY!! The “highlight and speak” feature worked the first day I tried this app and has not worked since, a feature that is also poor because you cannot pause long segments so you have to highlight very short segments at a time (which is extremely inconvenient when driving). I can understand not allowing copy and pasting for copyright reasons but spoken screen and spoken content with iOS does not work at all for this app which is absolutely absurd. Moreover, I have issues with my eyes where I cannot stare at screens for long periods of time so I reserve screen times for when I have papers and online research. The Auto-Night mode helps in adjusting to reading at night or in not so well-lit places.I rely on etextbooks because with kindle and other PDFs I can have my phone read the pages aloud to me while I am cooking, cleaning, commuting and managing my family. To make reading easier, you can set the background color of the screen, adjust display light, and also place bookmarks to continue from the next time.With the help of iCloud, any book that you purchase from iBook will appear on all synced Apple devices, as is the norm with Apple devices.Some of the samples can also be downloaded for free.
#READ AN IBOOK ON MAC FREE#
The app contains something called Top Charts.Starting from comedy to romance, thrillers, mysteries, fiction or nonfiction, biographies, autobiographies, you will get all of that here and much more.
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