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Crummy app, great book
We purchased the Alaska book and wanted to put the app on the phone to carry with us. I emailed Insight and told them of the problem. They emailed me back quickly and said they would send me a link to directly download it. Sounded great. Next day received the link but turned out it was for “boards”. Not interested in anything except the book. Very disappointing.
The book is wonderful and pretty accurate.Show lessRetireman
Only has book access
Purchased a short book on walking routes in Berlin, and thought the book might be able to link with a navigation app to make wandering the city easier. Nope! Just gets you to sign up for their newsletter and download a copy of the book (why do you need that if you have the hard copy?). What a letdown.Show lesslbberliner
Great guide
App and books are great! Unfortunately it gives me a invalid qr code message so I cannot download the book!
The guide is very informative though!oanceani
Silly App
This app allows you to download the ePub file for the book you purchased. The ePub file opens in iBooks. Why they need an app for this I don’t know, but it does what it was designed to do.Sa1inay
QR code invalid
Broken. QR code doesn’t work, can’t use the app and download the eBook.golfingsmith
Zero Stars: Tantamount to False Advertising
Insight Guides requires you to create an account with them before you can use the app’s scanner to pair with the QR code in the front of your guide. However, Insight Guides, despite common practice, also “conveniently” bundles their acceptance of future email correspondence with the registrant *within* their acceptance of rules and conditions of the service. You cannot receive the service without also receiving their spam. This means that anyone who wants to use the guidebook/app pairing feature, as advertised in the front cover of the guide at time of purchase, is unknowingly agreeing to 1a) registration to an entity not transparently negotiated at the time of sale of that service feature, and 1b) being forced into accepting correspondence with said entity, also not transparently negotiated at the time of sale of that same feature. This is particularly slimy business practice because anyone who isn’t, by nature, litigious enough to read the fine print when agreeing to the terms and conditions of the account - which, let’s not forget, you are forced to do in order to receive services as advertised, despite this omission upon its purchase - will not catch this. Most normal consumers, save attorneys, MBA’s, politicians, etc., are not particularly litigious, and thus, it is a particularly heinous business practice for a company to attempt to manipulate its paying consumers into unwittingly agreeing to obligations omitted at the time of sale-of-services by preying on their sense of obligation to the financial investment they already made when they initially chose to consume the falsely advertised product (the guide). 2) The QR codes don’t work. So even if you’re okay with everything above, you’re still f*ed.
Somebody should be reporting this company’s pile of hot steaming malarkey to the Better Business Bureau.Show lessacs247
Rubbish
Sad really - it's not rocket science. Fix it, make the book readable in the app. This is just an advertising platform for other books I now won't buy.Mullinstudio
Works great
It took a few minutes to work the app out but now it’s great. I have no problem accessing my free ebook. I plan on purchasing more “insight guides” books in the future and being able to access the guides through my phone is great.Miniprater
What a piece of crap
Don’t waste your time. Totally amateurish.PS98
Cannot view eBook within the app
The hard copy of the printed pocket guide is fine, but like another user review mentioned, I downloaded this app in hopes of just carrying around the free eBook supplement the book advertises. You do get the free eBook—but it doesn’t open in the app. You have to save it to an ePub file reader, such as iBooks. It won’t open in the Kindle app or Google Drive. Also, you’re required to sign up an account with the Walking Eye app just to download the stupid eBook, so watch out for spam from them now, ugh. Useless.Show lessSue Tofu
