Safe and exciting reading using the ONYX e-book "My first book"

When choosing a child a gift, parents want the gift to be not only pleasant, but also as useful as possible, so the book is still considered the best gift. But time does not stand still, and today more and more parents prefer e-books. An excellent option for a gift for a child from 2 years and older will be ONYX “My first book” - a product that, in fact, has no analogues in the modern market.

You can often hear that we are raising a generation that does not read in principle, who does not like to read. But you can argue with that. Much depends on how the parents themselves relate to reading, how much they are able to carry away the child with this process. It is possible to teach a child to read with pleasure at any age, but it is better to become puzzled by this earlier, and then the student will not have problems with reading the works of the school curriculum, as well as many books that are not included in this program.

A clever adult grows out of a reading child.

That is why the book is a great gift. But paper books today, unfortunately, are expensive and not every mother can often afford to buy them for a child. A more practical version of the gift is ONYX “My First Book” - an e-book for children, which can store a huge amount of literary works. The device can be replenished with new novels, fabulous works, narratives and short stories without significant costs (electronic versions of books are cheaper than paper ones, and there are many resources on the Web that allow you to download books for free).

The gadget is attractive for a child by itself, and therefore it will be pleasant for him to receive such a book as a gift. Its functionality and capabilities and the baby, and his parents will appreciate a little later. Love for gadgets - a trend that is peculiar to all modern children. The main thing is not to make a mistake and choose a gift that does not cause persistent psychological habituation, safe for the child’s developing vision, and is not harmful.

If parents want to instill in the child a love of reading, then a tablet, even for children, is not the best solution. We buy a tablet in the hope that now the child will begin to read for sure, but usually we “miss the mark”: the child begins to play with delight. A tablet with all its gaming and network capabilities distracts a child of any age from the main thing for which parents, in fact, decided to buy a gadget - from reading, development and knowledge.

The resolution of the tablet screens, as well as the uniform illumination of the entire screen, have a detrimental effect on vision. Almost before adolescence, the child’s organs of vision are very vulnerable, since the growth of the eyeball and the optic nerve is uneven.That is why the fascination with the tablet, even if the child regularly reads classical literature on it, is fraught in a short time to turn into the need for a long and costly treatment by an ophthalmologist, since visual acuity begins to rapidly disappear. It is not always possible to restore sight even with timely treatment.

The screen of the children's book-reader is highlighted in a different way: the light comes only from the perimeter of the screen, and not from its entire area. This screen backlight technology is called E Ink Carta (electronic paper) with MOON Light + adjustable backlight. To understand how this works, you can take a few mini-lights on the "clothespins" and attach them around the perimeter of an ordinary book. The page will be perfectly readable, while there will be no extra load on the organs of vision. It means that ONYX "My first book" display for children is harmless.

ONYX "My first book" is a gadget, a device for reading books in electronic format. The book reader will be interesting not only to children, but also to their parents, especially since at the very tender age (at 2-3 years old), the child does not read himself, his mother reads fascinating tales and poems to him, and for this she can use book reader. At first, only mother will read the tales aloud, but gradually, on a child-friendly screen, she will be able to show the letters to the child, which he himself once put into syllables and words.

Screen, made by technology "electronic paper" It makes it much easier for mother and even grandmother with poor eyesight to read a book to a child - reading it is convenient, comfortable for the eyes. A grandmother who sees faintly can increase the font and calmly read the favorite poems or fairy tales to the child left with her.

Parents who are concerned about the health of the eyes of the child and are still suspicious of any gadgets, I want to talk about this technology - E Ink Carta - “electronic paper”. Her invention once turned the world of electronic books, because reading from the screen, made in this technology, is just as convenient and safe as from a simple paper page. It is noteworthy that a child without the slightest harm to the health of the organs of vision will be able to read from such a screen at dusk and in the bright sun, for example, in summer, in nature or in the country.

Especially worth noting possibility of night reading. Which of us, the parents, is not familiar with the situation when the toddler has time to sleep, but he categorically refuses to fall asleep until he finds out what the interesting story has ended. And poor mothers have to be sophisticated with the choice of a night light, in which the child will also comfortably fall asleep, and she will see the page of the book to read the tale in the dark or twilight. ONYX "My first book" simplifies the task: adjustable backlight technology will help you easily, literally in a few taps, set the page backlight level you need in current circumstances. And down the nightlights.

Soft backlight useful not only to parents who read children a book in the dark or twilight, but also for the children themselves. One day, the day will come when the child will read the next adventures of pirates or musketeers so enthusiastically that, in spite of the parental ban, they will try to do it at night, after hanging up.

Previously, children took a flashlight under the blanket to light on the page that captured their attention to the book. And the parents were right who protested: it is bad for the eyes.Reading ONYX "My first book", due to the soft light, which can be adjusted, does not harm the child's eyesight, and if it is harmful to anyone, it is the nerves of the older generation, who by old memory are worried about what the child is reading in the dark. Their fears are groundless.

Included with the device for reading is the cover. But not simple, but “smart”, which not only reliably protects the case and the screen from possible unforeseen traumatic effects, such as a fall. If the child closes the book, the cover automatically puts the book reader into sleep mode, at which the battery charge is reduced to the minimum.

Battery the device is quite capacious, it allows you to charge the book rarely and provides a long period of battery life. As soon as the young reader decides to return to the book, the sensor will immediately issue a command, and the book will exit the sleep mode when the cover is opened.

A long press on the PREV and NEXT buttons at the same time can be done screenshots. Pictures are saved in the Pictures / Screenshots folder.

This section of the article will be useful for those who can’t think of choosing a gadget without detailed familiarization with the technical characteristics:

• ONYX "My first book" has a 6-inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 758 by 1024 pixels and a contrast ratio of 14: 1, 16 gradations;
• the body of the book is made of environmentally friendly materials that are safe for the child, even if he decides to "taste it" (plastic);
• ONYX "My first book" was created using the latest technologies and developments used in the production of the most modern electronic books;
• Management is performed by the Android operating system version 4.4;
• The processor has 4 cores, its clock frequency is 1.2 GHz, there is a large number of economical power consumption modes, with inactivity some of the cores are turned off;
• The amount of RAM - 512 MB;
• Battery - 3000 mAh;
• Management capabilities - multi-touch, side paging buttons;
• There are slots for microSD / microSDHC / Trans Flash memory cards up to 32 GB;
• Wired interface is represented by microUSB, and wireless - Wi-Fi;
• Allows you to read e-books in the following formats: TXT, HTML, RTF, FB2, FB2. ZIP, FB3, DOC, DOCX, MOBI, CHM, PDB, PRC, ePub, DjVu, PDF, CBZ, CBR, JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP.

The size of the book is quite compact - 170x117x8.7 mm. Included with the book is a case, a power adapter from 220V, USB cable. The warranty period for the book is 1 year. The product is certified.

The children's book reader is produced by ONYX International, which was organized in 2006, and today it is one of the leaders in its segment - in the manufacture of reading devices. Manufacturers are very responsible for what they offer to the consumer, and this also applies to the design and safety of products.

In 2010, they became the product of the year according to RBC experts in Russia. Four times the products of ONYX International in our country became the winner of the National Award "Product of the Year."

Using ONYX "My first book" is elementary. You do not need to understand the device complex gadgets or know by heart all the names of electronic libraries with books available for download. Just unpack the device and turn it on. Even a baby can handle this task.

It will be easy for parents to find something that will be interesting to a child, because there is a convenient content that includes books that are well known to many adults since childhood.

For example, fairy tales for toddlers and fabulous fantastic works for school-age children, folk tales and epic stories, including heroes whom modern children know mostly only from full-length animated films, are pre-installed. There are fables of Ivan Krylov, Pushkin's fairy tales, children's works of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, poems by Agnes Barto and Vladimir Mayakovsky.

If the presented library does not satisfy you for some reason, You can add her own books which can be easily transferred to the device’s memory from a computer or laptop, simply by connecting a book and a computer with a USB cable, or by downloading the desired work on the Web (libraries for any taste are presented, we repeat, many).

Since each book "weighs" not so much, the built-in memory should be enough, according to experts, for more than 1000 works. And if you insert a memory card, the library can be created altogether ambitious.

The manufacturers made sure that the child himself and his mother, who is “not strong in technology,” and even to her grandmother, who never held such a technique in her hands, was very easy and convenient to use the book reader.

The newly purchased new ONYX book “My first book” is by default spared by manufacturers from any settings, so that neither little readers, nor parents ignorant of them in technology will get confused. Therefore, it is better to do the first launch for adults in order to immediately put those settings that are most convenient for them and their children.

As of February 2019, the price of ONYX "My first book" is reduced and amounts to 9490 rubles. You can see the current price on the official website.

For those who think it is expensive, we offer simple arithmetic:

• the price of one teaching book (like “Learning letters” or “My first English”) on paper is about 250-400 rubles;
• children's encyclopedias ("Cities of the World", "Forest Animals", etc.) in cost start at 590 rubles and reach 1,200 rubles per book;
• Now count - 9490 rubles is enough to buy 31 educational books or 10-12 encyclopedias.

One ONYX "My first book" will allow you to immediately have more than a hundred children's books, and then increase their number to tens of thousands without additional investments or with minimal costs.

According to reviews of those who have already made such a gift to their child and themselves, this book has a lot of advantages. Particularly warm parents speak of the possibility to make a colder background illumination when reading during the day and warmer, almost yellowish, while reading in the evening and at night.

Many adults say that they would be happy to receive such a gift in their own childhood if it existed then, because by giving ONYX “My first book” to a child, you present not one, but hundreds and even thousands of different books that will allow the kid to start his travel to the world of literature and wisdom, knowledge and adventure. Many say that as a gift book is suitable for any holiday.

You can see a short review of the book in the next video.