Crayon Shelf user guide

Tap a cover on the shelf on the home screen and the book opens. “Today's book” changes every day.

Tap “What's this book?” to see the summary and the first three pages first. “See all books” sorts them by age group (3–4, 5–6, 7–8).

• On the reading screen, tap [Shall we open it?] or the cover to open the first page.

There are several ways to turn a page. Use whichever is easiest.

• Arrow buttons: the ← → at the sides of the screen (on a phone, the ← → in the bar at the bottom).
• Tapping the page: on a wide screen, tap the right page for next and the left page for previous. On a phone or narrow screen, the right two-thirds of the page is next and the left third is previous.
• Swiping: swipe sideways with a finger. Hold the edge of the page and the paper follows your finger as it turns.
• Keyboard: ← → turn one page, Home goes to the cover, End goes to the last page.
• Auto turn: switch on [Turn pages by itself] and the pages turn on their own. With read-aloud on, it waits for the page's voice to finish and then pauses briefly; otherwise it follows the length of the text. It stops on the last page.
• Tapping left of the first page or right of the last page does nothing. On the last page, [Read again] starts from the beginning.

Books with a read-aloud voice have one [Read to me] button in the top bar. On a phone, open [Reading settings] to see it. Each tap moves it round through five states.

1. Off No sound.
2. Level 1 The quietest sound (about 30% of full volume).
3. Level 2 A little quiet (about 45%).
4. Level 3 A comfortable sound (about 65%).
5. Level 4 The loudest sound (about 90%). One more tap goes back to Off.

• The button's picture shows the current level. More sound lines mean louder, and Off has a ×.
• The level you choose is remembered on this device, and stays the same when you open another book.

Switching from Off to Level 1 reads the page you are on from the beginning. When you turn the page, the sound stops and the new page is read from the start.

• To hear it once more, tap the button round to Off and then switch it on again. The current page is read again from the start.
• Moving between Levels 1, 2, 3 and 4 doesn't interrupt the voice; only the volume changes.
• To hear the whole book again, tap [Read again] on the last page.
• Books without a read-aloud voice have no [Read to me] button.

So that children don't open it by accident, the parents' menu is reached only through “Parents” at the end of the link row at the very bottom of the screen. There is no grown-up button in the kids' header.

Tapping “Parents” shows a grown-up check: a multiplication of a two-digit number by a one-digit number, with four answers to choose from. A right answer opens parent mode; a wrong one gives a new question.

• Once you pass, it doesn't ask again until you close that tab.

In parent mode, under “Name tags”, tap [Add a child]. Choose a name, an age group and a tag color to make the name tag. Making a name tag automatically puts 6 books for that age group on the shelf.

• A name is 1–10 characters. Korean, Latin letters, Japanese kana and kanji, and numbers are fine; emoji and symbols are not. A nickname is fine.
• The name is shown exactly as you write it on every language screen. It is never translated or changed to match the sound.
• You can make up to 4 name tags. Tap a name tag at the top of the home screen to switch children.
• Name tags can be reordered, edited and deleted.
• Names and shelves are saved only in this browser on this device. They are never sent to a server.

In parent mode, under “Language”, tap Korean (한국어), English or Japanese (日本語). The screen switches to that language right away.

• The language you choose is remembered on this device and used the next time you open the site.
• If you haven't chosen, the first visit follows your region and browser language.
• A book that has no translation yet appears in Korean, with a one-line notice on the book screen.
• Changing the language leaves name tags, shelves and reading records as they are.

In parent mode you manage each child's shelf and look at reading records.

• Shelf: remove a book with [Remove] in “preview”, and add one with [Add] in the “Book list”. [Put on a shelf] on a book page does the same.
• Reading records: the last 60 days (date, book, how far), plus times opened, times read to the end and the most-read book.
• Moving: download a file with [Export to a file], then tap [Import from a file] in parent mode on the other device. The file never passes through a server.
• Clearing: [Clear everything on this device] removes this device's name tags, shelves and reading records, and can't be undone.