This Press Release is almost a year old but if I just found it then there might be others who missed it, too.
First Book, one of my favorite charities, is teaming with the Digital Public Library and the White House to publicize an application developed for kids who might have access to a smartphone or digital reader but not to ebooks. The app allows these kids to read books donated by publishers of wonderful children's books. Teachers and caregivers who work with qualified children can request access codes so they can give one to each child. For better instructions and generally more factual information can be found at FirstBook.org or the Digital Public Library at its site: dp.la. (almost as awesome as my site: Sharienne.com) The app is at this address: https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/publications/documents/get-started-openebooks.pdf.
I hope that all kids get to see that a screen can expand your mind as long as you look at the right things. I have more than 5,000 e-books and thousands more publications and booklets in my reading applications (ISSU is really putting out some great content! BTW). How could I sleep with 5,000 books under my head if we didn't have ebooks? I never want to have a day without my books and digital has made that dream possible. The last thing I do each night is put my reader under my pillow so that I don't even have to lift my head in the morning to get my reading for the day started.
go forth! read books! (or pamphlets or instruction manuals I won't discriminate. Reading is all good.)
shari
