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Complete National Geographic: Every Issue Since 1888
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- Includes bonus DVD with videos documenting the history of the National Geographic Society and National Geographic magazine
- Geobrowse helps you easily find articles, photographs, and maps about the location you choose
- Browse special "readlists" from National Geographic stars or personalize your archive by creating and saving your own lists of favorite articles
- The Complete National Geographic includes every printed page--every article, photograph, advertisement--from 1888 through 2008
- Test your knowledge of subjects with a trivia game and reference hundreds of the magazine's classic maps
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : Yes
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 5.75 x 2.75 x 7.75 inches; 10.4 ounces
- Item model number : 96352
- Date First Available : August 11, 2009
- Manufacturer : Topics Entertainment
- ASIN : 1426296355
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,361 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
- #1 in Science Education & Reference
- #462 in Mac Software
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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.
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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
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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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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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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
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Customers like the lists and content of the physical video game software. They say it's a great set, with amazing collection of DVDs. They also appreciate the value, and appearance. However, some customers dislike the speed. Opinions are mixed on ease of installation, performance, and readability.
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Customers find the lists in the video game software great, wonderful, and amazing. They also say the DVD collection is fantastic and easy to use. Customers also say that the magazine part is wonderful, excellent, and a wonderful resource. Overall, they recommend the product as it's very well done and in a small package.
"...Just scanning through these articles, it looks like these lists are pretty good and I see a lot of things I want to read...." Read more
"...This is a very good product; however, I have given it four stars instead of five because I had a hard time copying all the content to my hard drive...." Read more
"...Indicative of high quality scans. The earlier set consisted of 30 CDs and you were constantly swapping them in and out...." Read more
"This product arrived very quickly. It is in very good (like new) shape...." Read more
Customers find the content great, valuable, and absurd for one package. They say it has enough information to be an encyclopedia. They also appreciate the handy readlist feature and bookmarking tool. They mention the trivia games are a real plus and it's great fun to see the development of the magazine since 1888.
"...There is a handy readlist feature, where you can create your own readlists (very easily done) or look at readlists that the editors have prepared...." Read more
"...treasure of 120 years of knowledge and history, and a very valuable reference resource. There are a few points that ought to be noted:..." Read more
"...Nice touches are the inclusion of a search feature and a very handy bookmarking tool...." Read more
"The content in this collection is worth countless hours of entertainment and virtual adventures. For this I would give it 10/5 stars if possible...." Read more
Customers like the value of the video game software. They mention that the price and delivery were right, and the disks worked as expected.
"...It appears to be a good value." Read more
"...the content from the beginning of the magazine and it was a great value for the money. I read a lot about issues with the updates but to be frank...." Read more
"...Complete National Geographic 109 years 31 cd rom this attempted improvement is a complete BUST...." Read more
"Great set at a great price. A must-have for anyone who's glued to NG magazines or TV channel...." Read more
Customers find the appearance of the book to be beautiful. They mention that the text and pictures are clear and have the same quality as in the printed magazine. They also say that the page quality is much better and that the quality of reading has been much improved.
"...It prints out beautifully, and there is no readability problem with printouts...." Read more
"...The sacanned pages are of high quality. The pictures have the same quality as in the printed magazine...." Read more
"...I appreciated that you could zoom in up to 2X and the text or photo stayed sharp. Indicative of high quality scans...." Read more
"As mentioned in other reviews, in this edition the quality of reading has been much improved...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the ease of installation. Some mention that it's very easy to use for skimming through random articles, with an intuitive interface and simple table of contents. However, others say that it’s slow, clunky, pointlessly complicated, and difficult to use.
"...plus is you get every issue of National Geographic in a relatively easily readable format when you use the easy-to-use magnifying and dragging..." Read more
"...slow - Distractingly so slow that each page turn is excruciatingly painful and it makes me wonder will i ever get there...." Read more
"I owned a previous version of NG on CD from 2000. It had an intuitive interface that made it easy to find articles and to simply browse through..." Read more
"...The software installed like a breeze, so for this thing I am well pleased.Anyway, thanks for your time!God bless!God is life!..." Read more
Customers are mixed about the readability of the physical video game software. Some mention that they can read and browse each magazine, zoom in on articles, print, and navigate through the entries superbly. They also appreciate the search feature and extras, such as trivia games. However, some customers say that the hard disk makes reading quite inconvenient, the text is near impossible to read with out being fatigued, and the library has a bad interface.
"...Nice touches are the inclusion of a search feature and a very handy bookmarking tool...." Read more
"...set is that the sideways pictures can't rotate, making them hard to read and enjoy. And there are many such pictures...." Read more
"...You can read and browse each magazine, zoom in on articles, print, etc. It's a very nice program.Now the rough part...." Read more
"...I am also able to read some past issues, in which the text was unreadable on the original...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the performance of the video game software. Some mention that it works pretty well for what it is, and works great on their Mac with Yosemite, while others say that it doesn't work on current operating systems.
"...It works under Windows XP ( my previous collection worked only under Windows 98)..." Read more
"This item should be removed from Amazon. It no longer works on current operating systems...." Read more
"The program is easy enough to install, and it works pretty well for what it is...." Read more
"The magazine part is wonderful. The maps part is horrible, does not work, and should be cause for a law suit." Read more
Customers are dissatisfied with the speed of the video game software. They mention that the interface is a little sluggish, turning between pages is also slow, and the images are slow to load. They also say that the menu transitions are slow and it takes an interminable time to load the images.
"...slow - Distractingly so slow that each page turn is excruciatingly painful and it makes me wonder will i ever get there...." Read more
"...It takes many hours to copy all 6 DVDs to the hard drive." Read more
"...user external USB drive (you do not need to buy theirs), improving speed and convenience to a point the interface is a pleasure to use." Read more
"...The menus transitions are slow, the options limited, and even the new feature for PCs to copy the DVD content onto the hard disk is questionable...." Read more
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One of the biggest negatives with this set is that the sideways pictures can't rotate, making them hard to read and enjoy. And there are many such pictures. Hopefully they will come up with an upgrade soon to fix this, as they have received many queries about this.
Although there are some negatives, overall, I am very happy with this set.
The huge plus is you get every issue of National Geographic in a relatively easily readable format when you use the easy-to-use magnifying and dragging features. If you have a 24" monitor, it's pretty readable as is. With magnified reading, when you go to the next page, it resets back to zero magnification, and you have to re-magnify it. But it's fairly easy -- all you have to do is double click on the page, and it magnifies, and you can drag the text and pictures around as needed.
They even include all of the advertisements, which they could have easily decided to omit. (It's fun to look at the ads from long ago. For example, in the April 1916 issue, focusing on the national parks, there's an ad for newly established Cascade National Park, placed by Great Northern Railroad, reminiscent of the days when railroads affiliated themselves with different parks, to boost travel.)
It prints out beautifully, and there is no readability problem with printouts.
There is a handy readlist feature, where you can create your own readlists (very easily done) or look at readlists that the editors have prepared. There are approximately 33 of these already created readlists, covering such things as various editors' favorites, National Parks, The Universe, The Untamed, etc. Just scanning through these articles, it looks like these lists are pretty good and I see a lot of things I want to read.
One problem with these readlists is that they don't give the date of the article. You see something focusing on, say India, and you have no idea if it is from 1915 or 2005. That makes a big difference to me insofar as my interest. They should include the date of the issue in these readlists. When I create my own lists I plan on always including the date.
All in all, I am happy with this set, and would buy again, since it seems to be the best way to get all of national Geographic, short of buying all of the actual magazines for thousands of dollars.
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!!!
Sadly, this version tries too hard to be fancy in its interface, and as a result it ends up getting in the way. Nothing is intuitive, and you spend a great deal of time wrestling with the search feature. I tried to find a map that I know NG published, "Ghost Fleet of the Outer Banks." I saw a framed copy at my last job. The DVD set's search feature tells me it doesn't exist. And that's even when I just search for Ghost or Outer Banks or Fleet.
It's nice that this version includes the maps from over the years, but the interface is very, very frustrating.
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Buy this at your peril. Returned the product.
The only source that really has the goods is the National Geographic Website!
It would seem that they want sole distribution at least to Christmas!
As I live in Canada no wish to pay the duty and exorbitant duty!
At least mark the product NOT IN STOCK