... would help me with my dyslexia it is not good for reading text book
353485
I Recently brought this for school thinking it would help me with my dyslexia it is not good for reading text book. The scanner on it does not pick up everything. Software was difficult to use a waste of money if you ask me. Back to square one.
3289494
I am in my late 50th and this book is no good for my eye sight.  I have new glasses and can't read the diagrams.
2489873
I think this is like most student manuals, it works through the odd problem sets.
Its a little sad but I remember my old text books used to work through all the problems, and discuss how they arrived at the answer with little helpful hints.

ie making it a manual to help you study and improve, not a necessary extension to the text book to see the answer to the odd problems.
1022961
My child is a fluent reader, but has problem processing what he reads. I thought this book would help him. The book has many very easy tasks that have little to do with actual reading comprehension: sequence a set of 4 pictures, general question not about the story. Some exercises a good, but mostly this book is not for fluent readers who need help with comprehension.
1141553
When I took my introduction to circuit analysis class, I really didn't much about circuits other than a small bit from Physics II. When I took circuits, my instructor was great and had amazing lectures and I learned a great deal.

Where this good story turns sour is when the text book enters the picture. Never before had i used a text book more useless and petty in my life. I had seen bed text books. This text book was so terrible that I actually considered burning it after I finished the class (but then I realized I paid $150 for it and would rather keep it).

First, the text book is very poor at explaining everything. There are places where the text spends to much time trying to explain simple concepts using big words and over complicated hypotheses, and other times when the authors try to make a really complicated concept seem like a cake walk (I felt like they did this with super-position).

Second, the text lacks many well encompassing examples to back up their delusional explanations. They are either too simplified or to confusing (The typical "Skips too many steps and expects you to understand what they did" sort of thing).

Lastly, and the most irritating is the lack of answers for the homework problems. Usually a text will have answers to all of the evens or all of the odds. Not this text. This text decided to go for the most random assortment of answers they could. So not only do you not understand what you are doing and don't know why you are doing it, you now have no clue if all that you did is right to begin with.

Don't buy this text. Make these authors work for their money and have them produce a great text book.
2713848
Its a text book. You will be forced to read it for class. Its not a terrible read.
4591449
I ordered these for my son who has dyslexia. I do think these work for some. However, he didn't think he saw the letters and words any differently with these. So, it didn't work for him but that doesn't mean these won't work for others. So I will base this review on the quality of the product. These are thick but not so thick they won't bend to go over pages and not so thin they easily break. I think these would be easier to read with versus the bigger sizes. I will give them to a teacher at his school. Maybe they will help someone else.
1966532
It may be OK for purely memory problems, but if there are vision problems also, it is unusable.  The display is dim, and it gets harder or impossible to read when you get off-angle and are not looking squarely at it.  So much screen space is taken up by the words (which she couldn't read), that my mother couldn't read the time either.  Taking care of old folks takes a lot of trial and error. :-(
2808282
We purchased this book for our dyslexic daughter. We got the Kindle because it would read the books to her.  This one wouldn't read and we didn't realize we had to look for that when we bought a book. In essence that isn's fair to say we hated the book because she wasn't able to "read" it.  We did contact Kindle and find that we had to look for text-to-speech when we purchase a book.
1868189
This textbook is well written and more interesting than most. However, I'm only giving it one star because I'm irritated that the publisher has chosen not to enable text-to-speech for the digital version. This option doesn't cost the publisher anything and it is very helpful for people with reading disabilities. My son is dyslexic and if the text-to-speech option is enabled, he can listen to the text while he is reading along and it reduces the number of errors he makes and he is then able to better understand the material. Without the text-to-speech option, it is very difficult for him to succeed in reading the text and in passing the class.
4186068
I have to say, the books are not an easy to read.  I perfer larger letters and wanted
pictures.  I wanted to use this as a teaching tool and it's not child friendly.  You need
a dictionary nearby for many of the words.  I gave this one star, because the day
I received the books, I decided to return them however; the company wouldn't pay for
postage.  I have bought from Amazon MANY times and had no problem.  My recommendation
is NOT to buy from this third party and buy ONLY Amazon prime.
3171245
I guess this is my fault for not reading closer, but this is ONLY the CD. There is no book to follow along with which is what I wanted for my dyslexic son. I saw "audiobook" and just assumed it came with the book. I kept it anyway so he could listen to the stories. I'm not really a fan of the authors' reading the stories, just because at times it was not very clearly done. I have other audiobooks that are read much clearer, just my opinion.
1398077
My professor absolutely loves this book.  I do not particularly care for it. Not very appealing to the reader.  Pictures and examples are very blah!!! Plus, it is packed with too much information in a small space. Not enough examples for the concepts that need to be learned.  The book came apart for most of my classmates.  The pages disconnected from the binding. Hard cover is not so appealing.  Does it serve the purpose in my Reading Certification class? Yes. Is it very appealing? No!
I will be reselling it once my class is over.
2947262
I am an older adult student returning to school.  This book is not formatted well for my own particular type of learning.  I really just need to brush up on my skills.  BUT, I can see it being helpful for a high school student really struggling as it doesn't present as a typical texbook.
1472034
I was very disappointed with the level of vocabulary and general writing.  These might be good books for someone who doesn't enjoy reading or has a difficult time with reading but that should be mentioned somewhere in the description
2575398
The arrangement of this book is O K but the fonts used throughout are very difficult to read.  I find them to be so distracting I could hardly keep my mind on the content .  Add to that, my copy had blurry pages from the printing process.  I finally ordered a different tutorial which I found to be much easier to read and a better source for learning.
1036564
Had to buy this as a text book for a course I am taking.  Really not my preference for reading.