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
Eeshan Sengupta
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.
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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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