środa, 7 września 2011

Ebooks For Children

By Owen Jones


Each parent wants to get their children reading as soon as they can. This means spending a lot of time on daily reading practice sessions. Often children's early reading books are of the interactive type. First readers often have pop-up images to exemplify the key words on the pages.

Why not take this a step farther by showing your children multimedia ebooks? Multimedia ebooks for children can take pop-up paper readers to the next degree and more. Even older children might benefit from multimedia ebooks. Educational ebooks on Beethoven, for example could play snippets from his music.

Ebooks on birds could play their songs and even short films of birds building their nests or in courtship. There are fantastic opportunities for ingenious authors of children's multimedia electronic books.

The ebook could have different modes such as with or without auto-read. The book could read itself aloud and a word could change colour or become underlined as it was being read. The voice could then instruct the child to click on a word to make an event happen, say, replay a bird song or show a short film.

It is frequently difficult to hold a child's interest and an interactive ebook like this could be just the means to make it interesting. This form of ebook is itself still in its infancy, but it seems that authors of children's books will have to start publishing this in this manner more and more.

One potential problem is children and electronic gadgets. Children these days are certainly more used to handling electronic gadgets than any previous generation, but still the hand held ebook readers would have to be very rugged and battery operated.

Today's ebook readers usually have screens which are just capable of displaying text in black on a white, blue or gray background, so the displays would have to be capable of full colour and the sound replaying facilities may have to be improved. Neither of these improvements are big problems.

Another advantage of an ebook reader is its ability to change the size of the text. Children occasionally have problems with their sight and an ebook reader may be just the solution.

It has also been said that some types of dyslexia can be improved if the text is displayed in, say, yellow on a brown background or pink on a blue background. All combinations are possible with an ebook reader with a colour screen, such as a laptop.

Home schooling is increasingly common and school books are being offered to parents at quite a discount to paper books. Paper school books are already expensive, but they are bound to increase in cost as the world's populace increases and the number of trees for use in paper mills decreases.

Ebook readers are great for taking on holiday, if you enjoy reading, because they will hold 3,500 ebooks. This will save you lugging three or four paperbacks on holiday with you next time. It will not be long before every household has a few of ebook readers.




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