The International Children's Digital Library: viewing digital books online
Juan Pablo Hourcade, Benjamin B. Bederson, Allison Druin, Anne C. Rose, Allison Farber, Yoshifumi Takayama · Interacting with Computers · 2003
Reading books plays an important role in children's cognitive and social development. However, many children do not have access to diverse collections of books due to the limited resources of their community libraries. We have begun to address this issue by creating a large-scale digital archive of children's books, the International Children's Digital Library (ICDL). In this paper we discuss our initial efforts in building the ICDL, concentrating on the design of innovative digital book readers.