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.

The navigation bar of my phone (I have Samsung Galaxy S25+) overlaps with the navigation of the app, which makes it impossible to access the content menu or the speech option. I looked around the entire app to see if there was a way to change that but I can't figure out what to do. I mean isn't it crazy for the developers to make the buttons all the way at the bottom knowing that is where all Samsung phones have their navigation bar?

What’s new

Fixed issues with offline access