International Children’s Digital Library launches iPhone app
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 21, 2008 at 3:00am
The International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL), which is the world’s largest collection of children’s literature available freely on the Internet, has released the ICDL for iPhone application.
Available free at the Apple App Store, the ICDL for iPhone application allows users to take advantage of the advanced capabilities of the iPhone and iPod touch user interface to read a selection of books from the ICDL’s master collection, which today represents thousands of children’s stories from 60 countries. The children’s books can be read in their native language and in English.
The ICDL for iPhone application features ICDL’s ClearText technology which was designed to make it possible for users to read story text clearly in the context of illustrated children’s picture books—even on the small mobile screen. The ICDL for iPhone application will be updated regularly as new books are made available.
The ICDL iPhone application syncs via Wi-Fi or the user’s cellular network and downloads the latest featured children’s books directly to the device, giving children and parents access to content offline and in airplane mode.The application was designed by International Children’s Digital Library Foundation with support from Zumobi and the University of Maryland’s Human-Computer Interaction Lab.
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