Cambridge Spiral FAQs
Cambridge Spiral
You can learn how to use Cambridge Spiral by consulting our online guide. There is an FAQ dedicated to Cambridge Spiral as well to help answer common questions.
You can find out about our desktop, mobile and offline options via our application and offline information page .
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.
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.