| Complete National Geographic- Every Issue Since 1888 |  | From: Topics Entertainment
Category: Software
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Seller: Wunderkammer
Rating:  85 reviews
Sales Rank: 96
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP, Mac OS X
ESRB: Everyone
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 2.6
MPN: 727994963523
Model: 96352
ISBN: 1426296355
Dewey Decimal Number: 031
UPC: 727994963523
EAN: 9781426296352
ASIN: 1426296355
Publication Date: October 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | The Complete National Geographic includes every printed page--every article, photograph, advertisement--from 1888 through 2008 | | • | Browse special "readlists" from National Geographic stars or personalize your archive by creating and saving your own lists of favorite articles | | • | Test your knowledge of subjects with a trivia game and reference hundreds of the magazine's classic maps | | • | Geobrowse helps you easily find articles, photographs, and maps about the location you choose | | • | Includes bonus DVD with videos documenting the history of the National Geographic Society and National Geographic magazine |
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Amazon.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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Product Description
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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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 85
 You can load to your hard drive - Here's how October 22, 2009
Sarasotan (Florida)
90 out of 92 found this review helpful
I loaded mine to my hard drive and love not having to take the DVDs in and out. It took over two hours per DVD to load, but was worth it. You just have to copy them from the DVD to a very specific folder on your hard drive. The directions are in the last of these FAQs in this link to the CNG FAQ page:
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(If Amazon doesn't allow this link here, check one of my responses below this review -- I'll include it there too and maybe it can stay there.)
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.
Magnificent set! Should have included a detailed instructions booklet however October 23, 2009
The Ancient Gamer (MO - USA)
33 out of 36 found this review helpful
Overall, I am very impressed and pleased with this set. There are a few minor things that bother me, however, things that are not explained and given workarounds for due to there only being a 1-sheet program installation page.
1. There is no instuctions booklet provided in the box. There is an onscreen FAQ of sorts, but it doesn't begin to cover everything you need to know, making a booklet a must-have.
2. Many pages have their photographs oriented and displayed vertically onscreen. If a function exists on the installation disc to make them appear horizontally side-by-side I can't find it. Having to turn my head sideways to view these vertical pictures/read the text every so often is sure hard on my neck! LOL
2. No explanation (that I can find) is available on how to access/display the maps.
3. As was mentioned previously in this thread, each magazine page must be zoomed manually since there's no option to lock the screen at a given magnification for as long as it's needed. This is a programming oversight that should have been addressed, prior to this shipping out to retail.
All in all, owning this Nat-Geo set is proving to be a fascinating and worthwhile trip down memory lane. It's a lot of fun, revisiting all of the old Nat-Geo issues I remember reading (and used to collect) as a kid back there in the 1950s-60s.
CAN be fully copied to hard drive now. December 5, 2009
Gavin Scott (Sunnyvale, CA United States)
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
As of December 2009 there are definitely ways to copy the DVDs to a hard drive so that the DVDs are not required to use the program.
If you install the software and use the update option in Preferences to install the latest update then you get an option to specify where the DVD data is stored, and you just need to copy the contents of the disk1-6 folders from each disk to that location. Note that this copy process is rather slow (if you have more than one DVD drive you can do more than one copy at the same time) and the data are stored in inividual image files for each page so it has to copy around 34,000 files per disk. Each file copy seems to cause the DVD drive to seek back and forth across the disk once, which means 34,000 seeks per disk which slows the process significantly (to over an hour per disk) and also might result in a significant amount of wear and tear on the DVD drive (this is speculation).
Note that you'll need 50GB of available disk space if you choose to install all the data to disk!
The developers are actively updating the program and the latest Mac version has a "copy everything to disk" feature which does the work for you, and the Windows version should have this same function enabled literally any day now. The web site to follow for the latest info is COMPLETENATGEO.
This version of the Complete National Geographic is *much* improved over the one from several years ago. The viewing application is a much nicer application, it scales the images to the size of the application window nicely, and the full two-page spread images are quite readable on a 24" 1920x1200 monitor.
Our local Costco has had a huge pile of these this holiday season, so I hope this review helps out some of the new purchasers looking for information about the product. If you haven't bought it yet, it's a great deal and an amazing wealth of information and imagery. Issues through (most of?) 2008 are included, and they say there will be an option in 2010 to buy the 2009 issues to add to your existing collection.
Highly recommended.
G.
Ignore the bad reviews, unless.... February 14, 2010
Mark A. Baker (SLC, UT USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I believe that many of the bad reviews were before the update that National Geographic did. This is truly a wealth of information, and quite remarkable software. My copy installed flawlessly onto my hard drive. If you're wondering if this will work for you or not, here's what I think you need:
1) A decent computer-- If your computer can be found on on an advertisement in National Geographic from the 80s or 90s, this software probably won't run too smoothly on your system. So don't say that these CDs suck if your computer once survived Y2K.
2) Follow the instructions --([...] )Their website tell you to insert disc 1, then go to preferences and update the software. After doing that there is a button that says to install it to the hard drive. It lets you choose where you want to install it, and after about 5-7 hours with vigilance to swap out the discs (real time depend on your computer), your software will be installed. No tricks involved if you just update the software from the start. Very easy.
3) I expected there to be at least three things, but there's not. It's quite simple.
I am overwhelmingly satisfied with this purchase. I wish I could take a few days off just to catch up on some National Geographic reading, but instead I will enjoy the sparse moments with this software at random times over times over the next several years. This would make for a great gift, a great resource, a great hobby if you had all day to read.
Negatives: The only thing that would make this better in my opinion is if they could have some sort of side scroller that would show the different pages (smaller) so that you wouldn't have to clink each page one by one just to see what's on it. Also, they need to solve the problem with the pages that need to be rotated 90 degrees to see the content.
**Bonus tip: Many people have mentioned that you cannot get the images directly from the articles, however, if you have Vista or Windows 7 this problem is solved with the "snipping tool". Very easy to grab images if you would ever need to.
YIPPEE!!! I can finally stop saving the magazines!!! December 9, 2009
A. Ferreira (Kentucky, USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
My husband is a big fan of National Geographic, and you cannot believe the magazines I have tucked away for him....EEEK! I'm running out of space!!!
When I saw this item I nearly fainted: FINALLY I can give him not just the recent issues, but EVERY issue, and I don't have to save all those old magazines.
PLUS now he can search for articles of interest, browse the great pix...this is a wife's DREAM if she's married to a NG freak!
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