Pearson+

Don’t buy an e book on here especially over 100$ it’ll expire by the end of the semester. I paid 200$ for my biology book which I need for my HESI and now I have to buy it again because they expire this is ridiculous not worth the money at all.

Used this app all semester and worked fine. Actually enjoyed it. Out of nowhere it logged me out and is now saying it can’t find my account despite me being able to log in online. It is though my school that I have Pearson access, but even when I go to use the QR code for my app it sits like it’s loading then doesn’t do anything. What happened? This couldn’t have happened at a worse time either as finals are in four days so there is that…

For some reason, Pearson has made it impossible to print notes. Use the pdf feature you say? Tried it. Save the file to your drive? Nope. Copy it to google docs? Tried that too. Pearson, you are making it very difficult for me to study at the moment. Avoid, avoid, avoid.

...default zoom is unreadable, page turn is buggy and unintuitive, and, finally, the TOC is incomplete. 1. When searching for a text string longer than one word, the search results show an excerpt where the phrase appears. But when clicked on, it doesn't take you there. Instead you're taken to the first occurrence of the first word of the phrase. You'll typically be in the right chapter but on the wrong page. You'll have to read for several minutes until you come upon the phrase you're looking for. This is very odd behavior and makes the search completely useless. 2. The audiobook sounds completely unnatural and makes learning basically impossible. The voice inflections are in the wrong places, causing the audiobook to convey incorrect meaning in what it is trying to read. Furthermore, if you're book contains any tables or images with numbers, the audiobook will eventually come upon them and spend several minutes reading out the numbers in their entirety. 3. As other reviewers have stated, books open with tiny text by default, requiring the reader to zoom in. But zooming slightly off center causes the page to turn, which then causes the reader to lose their place from the previous page. Compounding this bugginess, pages seem to be set arbitrarily – some are a single screen of text, some are dozens. There's really no rhyme or reason. 4. Homework problems aren't in the table of contents. You literally have to go to the last section of the chapter and then turn pages until you get to the homework problems. That's ridiculous. 5. Finally, when logged in to the companion website to view the textbook instead of the app, you're constantly taken to the page to buy the textbook again. Confusingly, there's no indication that you already own the textbook. You have to click the Buy Textbook link and then for some reason that will take you to the open textbook page. Very confusing.

Consider your subscription a lifetime commitment. Super easy & convenient to sign up, takes a miracle, an act of God & weeks of your time to cancel. You called or emailed them & they cancelled? No the didn’t. Just wait until it auto-renews, despite the fact you graduated 6 months ago. Support said they cancelled auto-renew? No they didn’t. Give up, they own you now.

If I move the screen left or right just EVER so slightly on accident while I'm trying to scroll, it refreshes and takes me to what I assume is a checkpoint? Sometimes not even close to where I was and it often makes me lose my place. More often than not, the formulas won't load in properly and I can't even read it. I'll close the app and open it again, sometimes it's clear but it's usually not. Both of these issues are present on both the phone and the iPad.

There’s plenty of good features they added, but I don’t really use any of them, but when I need to just know the page number for an assigned reading from class I their no where to be found. This might be just a problem with my book, but still I don’t need notecards or other bells and whistles I just need to read this book for class, and page numbers should be a bare minimum.

Overall, it’s a great option to have. The search function could improve, specifically how to the results are shown and the results that are produced. For example, if selecting a glossary term, it will just take you to the glossary and not directly to the word.

I haven’t pay attention at all on the subscription agreement, they will charge 4 months even I only need it for 1 month. Read their agreement carefully!

Both online and in the app. The search while viewing a textbook rarely works for me it just goes to a blank white screen and never loads. I do like that they have monthly unlike a lot of textbook places, but because of the how frustrating it is to just try to find something in the textbook, I probably won’t use this again unless I have to.