Pearson eText | Global

Have no clue as to how useable this app is. Was able to find the A & P book in the bookshelf, tapped do download, then gets stuck at 90% "Synching Notes and Bookmarks". Have tried downloading on two separate devices (both up to date) using both WiFi and cellular networks, and result is the same. Waited an hour for said note and bookmark sync to happen (which I have none as I have yet to access the ebook). A bit frustrated, but should be able to access the ebook via web browser. So cannot comment on performance, but functionality gets a shiny, tiny, little star because I no longer wonder what you are. Deleted. UPDATE: Downloaded app again after updated apparently the same day as the review? Regardless, I am definitely able to download the textbook. I do have some thoughts and will reserve for when experience accumulates. Thankful for basic function Pearson and changing initial rating.

The Pearson integration into my school’s learning management system is horrid and provides a very small window view for the e-text. This app is leaps and bounds better than that and looks great on my iPad. But this app is seriously lacking in navigation. When I go to the TOC, only the first two sections are listed under each chapter even though there are many more sections available. Also there is no “go to page” feature. So the best I can do is use the table of contents to get to the second section and then flip through the pages until I get to where I left off in the textbook - possibly 30 or 40 pages! Also the timeout feature is very quick. If you leave the app to grab lunch when you come back you are back at the textbook selection screen instead of the page where you left off. Leaving you to painstakingly navigate back to your last page via the method I just described. I could do without a go to page function if at least the TOC was fixed to show the full TOC.

I’m taking Biology through my community college and I bought the Etext mastering biology with physiology. I actually give this rating a 3.5 stars but the rating didn’t allow half stars. I like that I can read my book on my iPad at home but I do not like that I can’t adjust the background color of the book. When I read books on my iPad through my kindle App I have settings I can play around with. Settings like background color i.e black, sephia, which is an off white, and stark white. After looking at this book on my iPad my eyes start to hurt from the bright white background color. I’ve tried turning down the brightness of the screen and this helps a little. I also do not like that I can’t listen to the book. I would love that option.... I would benefit from listening to my BIOLOGY book in the car, in between work breaks, and school breaks. Please add the audio option and option to change background book color. Thank you

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It lost hours worth of highlights and notes. I contacted customer service, which was useless. After going through steps with them for a whole hour, they “escalated” my case, which ended up meaning that they’d send me a form email about every 3-4 days with no new information and no fix. When I contacted them again, they referred me to an incorrect customer service number. A woman halfway across the world spent 20 minutes explaining to me that she couldn’t help me at all. I still can’t make notes or highlights without them disappearing, they won’t respond to me with anything useful via e-mail, and now there’s a new issue of sideways page numbers randomly appearing in the text. Try concentrating on studying a complex topic when random 68 numbers 22 appear all throughout the 35 text that you’re reading. If you can avoid this company, please do — for the sake of your time and sanity, not to mention your performance in class. They’ve done nothing useful since I contacted them two weeks ago. Imagine two weeks in a lab science course without a functioning textbook... Not fun.

The convenience of having the textbook within reach and easy to carry can not be ignored. Though I wish there were different colors which use to highlight and ways to easily access notes from the textbook page rather than flipping between two different areas. There is also the issue of the textbook never saving my page, so I have to either bookmark it or search for each time. The greatest annoyance however is that the very edge of the page is eaten by the page turning interface. With my inability to adjust the page size so I can the last few words on the page, I’m forced to pull the page up and hold it, making note taking and highlighting hard. I suspect there is little that can be done, as there is little incentive for them to actual change the situation or issues. Yet I felt it important to share these glaring flaws in a rather convenient application.