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| PLATFORM: | Windows 98, Windows Me |
| CATEGORY: | Software |
| MANUFACTURER: | Topics Entertainment |
| MEDIA: | CD-ROM |
| UPC: | 781735803110 |
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Customer Reviews of National Geographic: 112 Years Collector's Edition
Fuzzy scans, but at least the magazine's available What can you say about the National Geographic? It's an old standard and a wonderful reference--no well-stocked library should be without it. Having it on CD leaves a lot more room on your bookshelves for other things. <
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>However--this is not the most user-friendly product. The quality of the imaging is the worst problem. Both pictures and text are fuzzy, almost as if they had been printed on an old dot matrix printer with a well-used ribbon. In addition, the program is less versatile than might be desired. For example, each screen consists of two pages, and there is no way to print only one of the pages, let alone a single image. Instead, you're stuck printing both pages, like it or not. (You can, however, print the entire article.) <
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>If this were anything other than the National Geographic, I would probably give it 3 stars instead of 4. <
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Excellent References
Mine contains 31 CDs; and it's 111 years version. I use Mac and installed it from OS9. Then I rebooted back to OSX (Panther 10.3.5). The software launches fine in classic mode and I have no problem viewing it. I like how the magazine resizes itself based on the size of my window. So I can enlarge it easily just by dragging the window's bottom right corner. My monitor is an Apple Cinema HD Display 23" viewing at 1920x1200. The photographs are gorgeous and their resolutions are good even on my high resolution monitor. Types are a little fuzzy but it's legible. Overall, it's an impressive collection to have. I rated 4 star instead of 5 because of the fuzzy type. Note for Mac classic mode user: You must install QuickTime 6.0.3 in classic.
terrible quality
I am a great fan of National Geographic, partly because of its outstanding quality in prints. This "digital" version was very poorly made: the text and the pictures are all fuzzy. Sometimes the words are barely legible. Reading an article of more than 10 pages is very painful. I would love to see this library completely remade.