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Complete National Geographic- Every Issue Since 1888
Studio : Topics Entertainment
by Topics Entertainment
Brand : National Geographic
Model : 96352
Platform : Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP, Mac OS X
Release Date : 2009-10-09
Publisher : Topics Entertainment
Released : 2009-10
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9781426296352
UPC : 727994963523
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 67 reviews)
List Price : $69.95
Our Price : $38.92
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The Complete National Geographic includes every printed page--every article, photograph, advertisement--from 1888 through 2008
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Browse special "readlists" from National Geographic stars or personalize your archive by creating and saving your own lists of favorite articles
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Test your knowledge of subjects with a trivia game and reference hundreds of the magazine's classic maps
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Geobrowse helps you easily find articles, photographs, and maps about the location you choose
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Includes bonus DVD with videos documenting the history of the National Geographic Society and National Geographic magazine
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Product Description |
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The Complete National Geographic. Every Issue since 1888. Explore 120 years of amazing discoveries fascinating maps and the world's best photography with The Complete National Geographic. This definitive collection of every issue of National Geographic magazine digitally reproduced in stunning high resolution brings you the world and all that is in it. WIN/Mac compatible 6 DVD-Rom's plus bonus DVD. ISBN 9781426296352 |
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Webanix.com Product Description |
Explore 120 years of amazing discoveries, fascinating maps, and the world's best photography with The Complete National Geographic. This definitive collection of every issue of National Geographic magazine, digitally reproduced in stunning high resolution, brings you the world and all that is in it. Use the advanced interface to explore a topic, search for photographs, browse the globe, or wander on your own expedition. The Complete National Geographic | 
Click to enlarge. | Rediscover every printed page--Every article, photograph, advertisement--from 1888 through 2008 on 6 DVD-ROMs |
| Browse special "readlists" from National Geographic stars or personalize your archive by creating and saving your own lists of favorite articles. | 
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Click to enlarge. | Use Geobrowse--a visual geographic search tool--to find articles, photographs, and maps about the location you choose |
| Test your knowledge of subjects including exploration, the environment, geography, history, cultures, and more with a trivia game that links to related articles Reference hundreds of the magazine's classic maps digitized as part of the magazine's archive for the first time | 
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Click to enlarge. | Includes a bonus DVD with tips on how to take better photographs, an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at how National Geographic Magazine is put together, and interviews with NGM photographers revealing the backstory behind their famous photographs. |
Complete National Geographic Features - Digital reproduction of all 120 years of National Geographic Magazine
- Highest production quality on DVD
- Digital scans are high resolution for optimal viewing of images
- Easy to navigate and explore content
- Search by keyword, author contributor, topic
- Visual geographic search
- Discover content through NG-created, or user-created “Read Lists
- Zoom in/out of pages
- Reading and search experiences significantly enhanced
- Modern, graphical user interface
- Explore and discover approaches to content
- Geospatial browsing
- Trivia Game to drive content discovery
- Now Featuring Fold-Out Maps
- The most popular feature of National Geographic Magazine
- Bonus DVD includes video extras not available anywhere else
- Best Moments of National Geographic
- Photography tips
- Narratives by award-winning NG photographers
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The information contained and having all pages of the National Geographic is awesome and I would recommend it to anyone.
The Big disappointment comes from the interface used to display the magazine.
1) slow - Distractingly so slow that each page turn is excruciatingly painful and it makes me wonder will i ever get there.
2) Photographed PDF images instead of text. - this is a huge pain on an entirely new level!!!
3) Text is not searchable because of the PDF images
4) Photographs become pixelated when zooming because of the PDF images
5) Text is near impossible to read with out being fatigued because of the old source text.
6) Zooming in is difficult to do and exploring the page is another exercise in frustration.
This software could be improved by providing just the pages in PDF form without the stupid software.
The software developers could have ran the magazine through google OCR to extract the text or use higher resolution photos.
Taking the time to extract the images is a necessity!!! |
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Complete National Geographic |
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I was pleasantly surprised to see the depth of information found on the DVD's. The details of the graphs and the photographs were beautiful. The table of contents was simple to use. |
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Complete National Geographic |
I have the earlier CD-ROM version of The Complete National Geographic, and was attracted because this one is not only more up to date but takes up far less space. Surprisingly it is not so good. It takes an interminable time to load. Not only is it much harder to use "SEARCH" but it lacks the facility to rotate pages. The National Geographic throughout its history has printed many of its pictures sideways on the page, and so if you use a desktop, they are extremely dificult to see properly unless you are athletic enough to turn your head to be horizontal to the floor. All right with a laptop because it's easier to rotate the whole thing. But what a crazy omission.
I found that one entire issue in the 1950s has been reproduced twice and defied the index. I wrote to the NGM customer help people but they said I was mistaken, and when I wrote back saying that I was not I heard nothing further.
So, regard this product as a beta minus, and hope that thay can do better in the future.
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Awesome to the Core |
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For someone who is a huge History/Geography buff, this item is a surefire winner of a gift. |
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Not quite easy to use |
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These design guys seems to pay much of the attention to protect their intellectual property rather than to improve user experience. They scan these issues into spectral format which can only be opened by their program. You have to insert DVD to read any part of the magazines. There is no way you can copy the contents on to your hard disk, which makes the reading quite inconvenient. You have to resale the page size each time you turn to a new page. The turning between pages is also slow and involve noisy disc reading. It seems that they want you to read as few times as possible. |
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