In a child’s good books

We got a nine-year-old Mumbaikar to review Digi Library, a new app that aims to imbibe the reading habit among primary school children

My mother doesn’t have Google Play on her phone, so we took someone else’s phone and I downloaded Digi Library [developed by NGO Thinksharp Foundation] on it myself. The first thing I saw was the sign-up page, so I filled in my details. I liked the library they have. I read stories from both the PDF and audio-visual sections. I read The Frog and the Snake on PDF, which is about a frog and snake who are best friends, but later turn into enemies. I enjoyed reading it. I also read The Elephants and the Rabbits in the audio-visual format. It was about elephants that go about trampling rabbits, but I didn’t finish reading this one because it was a little long and I was eager to read other stories.

The app has provisions for both PDFs and audio-visual books

I found the app easy to operate. I think it was built using Thunkable [an app-building software] because I take coding classes, where I have built two apps myself using Thunkable, and the features in Digi Library are similar. The app has many interesting stories and I would recommend it to my friends. I would have liked to see more English books in the library though, because there are more people like me who don’t understand Hindi very well [note: the app was built keeping school-going children from rural India in mind]. I would also have preferred if the stories in the app had been presented as actual books, with different pages that I could flip through. But overall, I had a good experience with it.

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