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Collins Birds Guide App. (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter jpoyner
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I don't think there is an app.
There is an E-guide, which you can download onto your Android phone:
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=225461&page=2
Note it appears to be out of print:
http://www.nhbs.com/collins_bird_eguide_tefno_144626.html
There is an E-guide, which you can download onto your Android phone:
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=225461&page=2
Note it appears to be out of print:
http://www.nhbs.com/collins_bird_eguide_tefno_144626.html
kitefarrago
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A company called `My digital earth' apparently did the EGuide for PDAs. (They're the people who've done the app for Sibley and for the Sinclair et al book on Birds of Southern Africa.)
On their availability chart Collins has been promised as being available for Apple/Android devices as `coming soon' for at least two years now. Given how many other apps have actually appeared in that period it doesn't seem a huge priority. Maybe we should try lobbying?
Andrea
On their availability chart Collins has been promised as being available for Apple/Android devices as `coming soon' for at least two years now. Given how many other apps have actually appeared in that period it doesn't seem a huge priority. Maybe we should try lobbying?
Andrea
jpoyner
Well-known member
Yes, seems rather odd as is surely would be a winner. Perhaps there is some row over copyright issues going on behind the scenes?
Steve Babbs
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Really hope they get it sorted soon! And then can we have European guides to other groups please, especially butterflies and dragonflies.
There already is a European Butterflies iPhone App. I've not tried it myself but gets decent reviews... http://www.lepidapp.co.uk
Steve Babbs
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Sorry meant app for Android.
pianoman
duck and diver, bobolink and weaver
Killian? we'll be very very nice to you
Ian Bennell
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Rumour has it that an app will be out in march.
Gwynn
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Bit more than a rumour, you can pre order it on iTunes with a expected Release date of 27 March
Gwynn
kitefarrago
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Can you say a bit more? I can't find it in the UK store, neither via the web nor via ITunes.
Thanks,
Andrea
SW London birder
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kitefarrago
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That's the Kindle edition, not an app. Moreover it's the Collins Pocket Guide (Collins British Birds) with 256 pages, not the `full' Collins, which has 448 pages.
I can find that on ITunes as well, but again, it's the electronic edition of that book, it's neither an app nor does it cover the book most of us mean when referring to `the Collins guide'.
I assume that everything reported on this thread refers to this rather than an app, unless somebody tells me otherwise.
Andrea
Gwynn
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https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/collins-british-bird-guide/id570747589?mt=11 hopefully that link will work and yes it is a ibook rather than an app
the link works fine but its still not the fully monty that Andrea is refering to. Only the UK birds.
mike davidson
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the company , in conjunction with Bloomsbury uk have done a really bad job of birds of east Africa with lots of errors , which were brought to their attention last February and have still not bee corrected. I hope they do a better job on Collins birds of Europe
Mike D in Nairobi
Mike D in Nairobi
If its anything like "most" software these days, the motto seems to be "Get it on the market as soon as possible and we can promise fixes as and when somebody with a clue lets us know". I mean, you wouldn't buy a car that hasn't been fully tested, so why do they get away with it with software?
