Cengage Read

Cengage Learning

About this app

Read your eTextbook and study on the go with the Cengage Read app. Cengage Read lets students study whenever – and wherever – they want with online and offline mobile access.

Take notes, highlight and bookmark info, have the text read out loud with text-to-speech and easily search keywords and jump to pages with the table of contents. Just log in with your Cengage username and password to get started.

Ratings and reviews

I like that the tool reads without having to manually advance the page. I like the option to increase or decrease the speed. I do find moving to a SPECIFIC paragraph or sentence is impossible, which is extremely frustrating. I have also found that if your phone "goes to sleep" the reader immediately starts pausing between sentences. fairly long, definitely noticeable pauses. So I have to keep my phone "awake" to avoid that. This would be perfect if not for those two functionality issues.

I... really wish I wasn't forced to go on here. It glitches and has issues with the aloud reading (useful when I'm busy). Thought it'd be what I needed since the other app glitched horribly with reading aloud (edit: primarily with tablets and mobile device). Well..Given the option for online reading...I chose it after trying this..but then it shows me nothing when I choose it. Not mad, cause I'll find a way..but I'm just frustrated.

To be sure, it is nice to be able to read your books on mobile. The in-book UI is fairly OK, and the offline mode is quite convenient. However, I am logged out frequently, and when I log back in, all books must be re-downloaded. I suspect it has to do with opening the app offline. I have only ever had it happen offline. Anyway, since the only reason I have the app is to read my texts offline, it REALLY defeats the purpose when I have to get online to sign and download everything AGAIN.

What’s new

This update includes general bug fixes and performance improvements.