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Hyper-minimalistic posters of the Children’s stories we grew up knowing and loving.
More at Christian Jackson‘s Imagekind Gallery.
Tags: books, Children's Books, Minimalist, Posters, Story Books
Ever since the official announcement for the production of the Apple iPad, developers have been very busy creating different applications for Apple’s newest toy. Touchoo is one of those applications that are built for the iPad. It is a company that is geared towards publishing quality interactive book apps for toddlers and children. They aim to combine the beauty in traditional children’s books with the intuitiveness and flexibility of touch screen technology.
Books allow all of us, grown-ups and children alike, to fantasize and use our imagination. Our vision is to help create a new age of children’s books, that cherishes what children have enjoyed for ages, without ignoring the unique opportunities available to this generation: a generation that will use new technology to develop themselves as individuals, and, no doubt, will change the world in ways that none of us can even imagine!
With the input of a select group of writers, illustrators, animators and programmers, Touchoo creates apps that stimulate the child on many developmental levels: emotional, mental, educational, and social – all strictly age appropriate. Each of their books explores a different developmental stage and is written to help the child learn a new skill while reading and playing. To ensure that the books they publish are perfectly suited to the needs and abilities of the young ones – in content, functionality and appearance – all Touchoo book-apps™ are made under supervision of a developmental psychologist.
The next time you search for an iPad app on iTunes for your kids, do check out Touchoo for an interactive and touch screen learning experience.
Tags: app, Apple, books, children, iPad, itunes, Touchoo
BiblioFaction is a community powered website for people who love short stories. Whether you are a writer or someone who loves to read short stories, BiblioFaction is a great online hangout.
Bibliofaction promises to be to the world of stories what Facebook is to friendship, Google to searching, and YouTube to home-made videos.
New and seasoned writers can publish their stories online through the website. They aim to build a community where new and experienced writers alike can draw inspiration from one another. Not all submitted stories get published on BiblioFaction. They have a team of editors that filters the good stuff from the not-so-good ones. If your manuscript doesn’t get published, you can seek help from real authors who are also members of BiblioFaction. The community is there to make you a better author and not destroy your hopes and dreams of becoming a great writer.
A few things that you can expect from BiblioFaction once you publish your stories
• Find your audience
• Sharpen your skills
• Get feedback on your writing
Readers can also expect user friendly navigation and a great reading experience. The stories are presented as if you are reading a real book, page by page. The stories found on Bibliofaction are rated accordingly and any member of the community can place a comment on the published stories.
Your BiblioFaction account will also act as a bookshelf for the short stories that you enjoyed reading. If you find a good read, you can store that story on your virtual bookshelf so that you can come back to it again or share it with your friends.
Tags: Authors, BiblioFaction, books, Short Stories, Stories, Writers
WhichBook is a book recommendation engine that allows you to adjust the level of mood or story elements you want to be in a book. This interesting tool will display a list of books that matches the strength level of elements that you have selected. All you have to do is drag the slider bar on each element and select go. Just remember that you can only open four sliders per recommendation.
Elements to choose from:
Happy – Sad
Funny – Serious
Safe – Disturbing
Expected – Unpredictable
Larger than Life – Down to Earth
Beautiful – Disgusting
Gentle- Violent
Easy – Demanding
No Sex – Sex
Conventional – Unusual
Optimistic – Bleak
Short – Long
Aside from mood elements, you can also get recommendation by selecting plots, character properties and setting. You can use their cool animated globe to choose the setting of the book that you want to read.
Whichbook is a different way of choosing your next book. It all depends on the story elements that you’ve selected and how strong you want them to be in your book.
Tags: books, recommendation, WhichBook
Knowledgerush is a community driven online directory that shares free books that are available in the internet. You can easily search their directory by category, title or author. What is great about this service is that it shares the online books in different formats. You can get them in text, HTML, Microsoft Ebook, Paginated HTML or paginated text format which will depend on the availability of the format.
Members of the Knowledgerush community can submit books that can be downloaded or read online for free. They also accept submissions from aspiring authors who wants to publish their work online. If you happen to know a page in the internet that contains a book that is not on the directory of Knowledgerush, and want to help out the community, you can submit the URL along with the Author, Title and Category of the book in their submission page which will be reviewed before they are added to the catalog.
The service is different from DailyLit which offers scheduled installments of books but both share the same goal of sharing free books online.
Tags: books, dailylit, e-book, Free, knowledgerush, Share
DailyLit is a book reading site where you can read your favorite books through email and RSS. They are currently offering more than 700 classics and contemporary books for free reading and the rest are on Pay-Per-Read with free sample installments. You can schedule your installments on a daily basis, Mon-Wed-Fri, or on weekdays only. You can also set the time on when you want to receive the installment then choose whether you want to get it by email or RSS. You can read the installments wherever you receive email or RSS feeds including your phones.
Most of the titles that can be found in DailyLit are bestselling and award winning titles. You can easily choose a book by Author, Title and Category which they have over 80 for you to choose from. Reading an installment takes more or less 5 minutes to finish. Each book is marked with the number of installments that you are going to receive before you finish it. If you feel that you wanted more and have more time to read, you can receive additional installments immediately on demand.
Another feature of the site is the gift service. You can send books form DailyLit to friends, with installments starting on any date you choose. Each installment from the gift service comes with a personalized message written by you.
Tags: books, dailylit, email, Free, gift, installments, RSS
