The Digital Reader

From the press release:

As the much anticipated April 3 release date for the Apple iPad nears, the University of Maryland and the International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL) Foundation have unveiled a new children’s reading and library application, ICDL for iPad. ICDL for iPad brings to Apple’s iPad access to the world’s largest freely available collection of multi-lingual, online children’s books with titles in more than 54 languages representing 64 countries. Through the ICDL for iPad app, children, parents, teachers and librarians will be able to access the International Children’s Digital Library on the iPad and use the ICDL’s award-winning children’s search engine developed by researchers at the University of Maryland’s renowned Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL).