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Welcome to the READCOM: Reading Communities App wiki!
The READ-COM project is about improving the Reading habits at home and at school, so that all the children could have the same opportunities in the future.
Its Reading Communities app is about reading, interacting with, editing / remixing, and authoring shareable Stories.
Can read about the Concepts used and watch a walk-through video of the Application (showing pre-release version 0.0.18): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vXp5jUf8cU
See https://github.com/Zoomicon/READCOM_App/wiki/Installation (Windows classic executable and Windows Store app, Installer for MacOS-X, Android app for sideloading and on Google Play Store, iOS app on Apple TestFlight)
- Also available: latest internal debug build for Windows 32-bit)
- More distribution channels in proress or considered for the future
The default document shown when app first launches (or with New button) contains some links for stories to try, including the Tortoise and the Hare Aesop fable.
Alternatively:
- can try downloading manually and opening that story for testing (right click the link and select to Save As a .readcom file - to use that story's URL in URLActions of StoryItems right click the URL and select Copy, then right-click and Paste in the URLAction editbox at the popup dialog of the ActiveStoryItem in the app).
- can download the whole Gallery in a .ZIP file (extract its Gallery subfolder somewhere on your PC) and load that sample story from the "Stories/Aesop Fables" folder, per the instructions found at https://github.com/Zoomicon/READCOM_Gallery/. The Gallery also contains useful media assets of permissive license at "Assets" subfolder to add to your stories
Older screenshots:
