Last week as I was surfing Google play aimlessly, I stumbled upon a commendable e-book app. It led to a website- zap2app.com . It is quite different from all other websites I have seen till now and I just felt like sharing my discovery with you all.
This website has a treasure to offer for not only the short stories- readers but also the language improvers. My first instinct was to click and download on my mobile an e-story by an author called Vini (it was for free;-D) the story 'a strange encounter' was so beautifully expressed that I couldn't help myself from drawing into a new buy. I bought another e-book later that week.
It is now that I have realised that the website is more than just selling books. They provide a platform to all the children and teenagers who write. They buy their stories and publicise them.(I am really looking forward to writing some in my vacations) Not only it is an interesting way of inculcating reading habits among youngsters and let their impressible minds explore a wonderful world of fantasy, adventures and mysteries but also it helps to expand vocabulary and the knowledge of usage of words.
AND THE MOST IMPORTANT FEATURE- it has e-books for just-beginning learners of foreign languages like French, German, and Spanish. The fables that we have heard from our grandmas and nannies since childhood are now available in foreign languages. There is proper line to line translation in English (if you want to learn like that) or you can also switch to all-text-in-foreign-language mode according to your own convenience.
And the best part for young kids- it has hand-drawn illustrations as well. Well, illustrations were something I would always ransack the books at home during my early reading days.So I feel (and contain in myself the prejudice) that reading is kind of gloomy with that elaborate text all over the page.(sometimes, I feel I am studying for school )
Yeah, so that's all I know about it now. And if you guys are interested, definitely check these links below-
http://zap2app.com/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=www.zap2app.com
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
–Vera Nazarian
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