An article in the Christian Science Monitor today discusses One More Story, a new site that will read bedtime stories to your kids. Excerpt:
For all those parents whose voices have grown hoarse sounding out the rhymes in their child's favorite picture book "just one more time," some reinforcements have arrived.
One More Story is a new online library where children can choose a book - complete with narration, highlighted text, and the book's original illustrations - and listen as they read along on the computer.
The creators point out that it's not meant as a substitute for parents:
"There's nothing like the one-on-one relationship with interactions, questions and answers, and filling in the blanks," Mr. Teitelbaum adds. The website is not meant to replace this parental role, he says, but the advantage is that "the narrator will always read the story with the same enthusiasm. That's the only aspect that might outdo a person who's read the same story for the 500th time."
But still, it's hard to imagine there being a real need for this, though I don't doubt that the creators have good intentions.
Link: Read the story again? Sure. Computers don't get tired. | csmonitor.com.
Spotted via Maud Newton, Bookninja, Arts Journal.
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