Show HN: AgoBrowse: Picture books for kids without distractions

Thanks! Would it be wrong to say it's a slide show creator / viewer? Do you want to grow it into like a super simple Libre Office Impress ( https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/impress/) / PowerPoint ? Or is your personal family use-case the main purpose.

I don't fully understand the wiki like edit, but not sure I need to.

Might be nice to add an index page on the space-bar press, where you have thumbnails of each slide to quickly jump to specific image.

AgoRapide17• 5 years ago

Regarding collaboration, the datastream is available like this:

http://vifero.no/RQ/dt/bef/SELECT%20ToPropertyStream().json

(all picture books with user id 'bef')

Please feel free to incorporate this in your app.

juliushuijnk6• 5 years ago

Thanks. I theory I think I could write a parser that would allow my app to view/import books in your format. Does seem like a bit time consuming to do, but perhaps if there are many people using this format I can do that one day.

My books export to a zip file that includes a json like that. Would probably make more sense if we both would parse to something more universally used (https://schema.org/Book perhaps) and then perhaps more people would be able to use it.

animal_spirits• 5 years ago

A little off topic but I'm a little jealous that dinosaurs are way cooler looking now that they are feathered and modeled after birds. The leathery lizard-like dinosaurs that were in my books as a kid were cool, but these ones are wild looking!

Now that gets me to think about just how persuasive images are to children's minds. When I think about velociraptors I almost exclusively imagine the Jurassic Park movie velociraptors, and not these ones.

ivan_ah2• 5 years ago

That's very nice and well done. Anything distraction free gets lots of points from me! A great way to browse the openly licensed images in the commons.

If you also want to introduce reading aspects, I highly recommend the African Storybook collection: https://www.africanstorybook.org/ all kinds of a short (like 10 pages) books for young kids.

For localhost access, you can read the books in Kolibri (a FOSS learning platform you can install on any old computer a raspberri pi). For the African Storybook channel, see this online demo https://kolibri-demo.learningequality.org/en/learn/#/topics/... and look around that demo server to see all the other channels available.

AgoRapide17• 5 years ago

Nice!

That is exactly how I would like children books to be presented.

I see that there are also some English language books. Does there exist a site in this format, with English books but with world-wide cultures?

I have been googling for it now and then but am still unable to find the 'perfect' presentation format.

ivan_ah2• 5 years ago

Here are some more kids stuff I've seen (sometimes with different reader UX from the above):

1/ Global Digital Library (PDF and ePub format) https://digitallibrary.io/ and as offline-capable Kolibri channel https://kolibri-catalog-en.learningequality.org/en/learn/#/t...

2/ Pratham Books' StoryWeaver (includes some of the African Storybook titles, and based around PDFs) https://kolibri-demo.learningequality.org/en/learn/#/topics/...

3/ Learn JS games (probably need 6+ years old for this) https://kolibri-catalog-en.learningequality.org/en/learn/#/t...

4/ Videos of kids from different cultures: https://kolibri-catalog-en.learningequality.org/en/learn/#/t...

5/ Educational math videos with lots of singing: https://kolibri-catalog-en.learningequality.org/en/learn/#/t...

And more generally, you can see all EN channels in the catalog: https://catalog.learningequality.org/#/public?languages=en

wccrawford3• 5 years ago

Bug: Clicking too fast to advance the image results in highlighting a picture, turning it blue.

AgoRapide17• 5 years ago

I think it is moving the cursor simultaneously with clicking that causes it. In other words the web-browser sees it as intention to mark / select content on web page.

Any suggestions for how to avoid this?

wccrawford3• 5 years ago

There's some CSS you can use that prevents selection. I can't see any need for selection in your app, so you could just apply it liberally.

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