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Last verified 31 Jul 2026

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1. 5/5Who thought of this this?

   I absolutely hate 90% of the user feature of this. Why are we reading a scroll? Why can’t we turn the page? Scrolls went out for a reason! The reader never feels like they get to the end of the page. Some of our chapters are 60 pages long. It shouldn’t feel like a page of reading codes and never finding the problem. Also can we write on the page for the price we pay for our “books”? The in text notes are nice. Where’s the interactive feature? Can we please turn the page? Why all my books not in te same place?

   Annie876323 · 31 Jul 2026

2. 2/5Poor editing and writing of content review questions

   The app is ok. But some of the editing and writing on content review questions could really be improved (at least in the pre-nursing and. nursing disciplines). A key problem is a lack of crowdsourcing for solutions. What I mean is there is also no easy way for a user or instructor to easily flag errors in content, or writing (especially in questions and rationales). It take multiple emails, go through multiple levels of customer service representatives, where they want screenshots of their incorrect data and screen shots or references the correct data. And then, after all of that, they will eventually send a note to the content team where it can be flagged so it might possibly be corrected for a later revision. They could simply have a button or an email to send content questions and concerns to and faculty and students would likely report errors. The could be quickly assessed to see if they are applicable and the information flagged for editions by a revision author. Considering the cost of Elsevier’s resources is roughly a thousand dollars a semester, these resources should be AMAZING, but honestly it feels like their approach to education is antiquated and clumsy. It feels like bloated bureaucracy. The customer service is pretty good but beyond the people who answer the phones and emails, I am completely underwhelmed.

   Rum-Runner · 31 Jul 2026

3. 2/5No page turner??!!

   So I though it was my setting or something I was doing to not be able to turn the pages - only lets you scroll up and down! Spent like 2 days trying to figure it out only to come to the comments section to find that everyone else is having the same issue! Please fix this! Never seen anything like it and have many different reading apps I have used and this one is the most bizarre! Again, please fix this. School is about to start soon and this would greatly improve user experience across the board.

   genesis 2018 · 31 Jul 2026

4. 5/5Great app. Super convenient

   Only function I wish it had was a customizable sensitivity to side swiping. Often when scrolling down the page I accidentally side swipe which brings me to the next/previous chapter. This would be a good function to have if it was less sensitive, but as it is now it’s just annoying

   rosem1797 · 31 Jul 2026

5. 1/5Constantly losing track of where you are in the text.

   This app is not user friendly. It randomly quits and then will lose where you left off in the text. I use this app so that I don’t have to read my textbook and can listen to it when driving/ other tasks, but when it constantly loses its place I have to scroll until I find where I was in the reading. This causes immense frustration. I gave it a chance thinking that perhaps it was not going to be a routine issue but it’s now continuing to happen quite frequently and it has cased me enough frustration to leave a 1 star review. This app seriously lacks in comparison to Pearson +.

   Jane er Annie · 31 Jul 2026

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