Monday, November 24, 2008

Thing 22 - Tumblebooks

I looked through Tumblebooks on our own OPL kids page and was surprised by what the ebooks really entailed. I was expecting the click through the pages of the picture books just like I click through the pages of regular adult ebooks I read online. However here, they slide and flash and move the pictures all around, almost like a movie. It reminded me of the stories read on Reading Rainbow when I was a kid, where they showed the actual pictures but made them more animated and full of motion instead of static pictures. Quite entertaining. And quite a find that I had no idea OPL had!

One frustration I had with it was the slower loading time without notes to the reader that the loading is still taking place. When the first picture came up, I automatically assumed the whole book was loaded. However I found that the title page really was supposed to give you something to look at while the book loaded. A small "loading" bar would help with this small misunderstanding I would think.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

there are different types of kids ebooks, so do you think these types of ebooks will replace regular picture books?