Students

You can find out about our desktop, mobile, and offline options via our dedicated page how to read page.

You can learn how to use the Cambridge Spiral eReader by consulting our online guide . There is an FAQ dedicated to the reader as well to help answer common questions.

If your institution has provided you access to our eTextbooks, we do have a read-only experience which does not require a personal user account. As a result you will not be able to take advantage of features such as bookmarking, annotating and printing.

The full experience contains the ability to use these enhanced study tools, but because of the personalisation offered by these features, you will need to be logged in to a personal user account in order to use them. Please log in or register for a user account to access these features.

Sometimes it is necessary for us to update our books to correct information or improve functionality and performance. When this happens occasionally it will affect user annotations. If this is going to occur you will receive an email notifying you.

Annotations can be exported from the annotations sidebar inside the web version of Cambridge Spiral eReader to give you a backup of your annotations. Click on the export annotations button to export your annotations to PDF.

To facilitate better reading experiences in the digital textbooks whole page figures or other cntent have been moved to under their first citation. This sometimes leaves several 'print pages' pagination marks visible.

No content has been removed from the digital compared to the print textbooks.

A forthcoming feature will allow you to toggle print pagination on/off.

You can use Cambridge Spiral in your web browser right now. Desktop versions are also available to download for Windows and Mac.

Cambridge Spiral supports Windows 10/11 and the last 3 versions of MacOS and supports the last 3 versions of Android and IOS operating systems. We aim to support the last 3 major versions of Chrome, Edge and Firefox browsers

Your may experience issues using Cambridge Spiral on devices and browsers outside of these.

Please contact our technical support team  for assistance.