The Malaysian government’s movement control order (MCO) has been extended to 31st December, as we usher into September with the ongoing pandemic, if you do not have any travel plan, please join us for some readings!

What? Don't want to go to the bookstore? Can't find the book you want to read? Fret not, just download the Forest Life APP now and log in to the smart digital community library, thousands of e-books are there up for your pick!

Forest City joint hands with the world’s leading digital content provider “OverDrive” to build the first smart digital community library “Readlife” in Malaysia. It is a digital library based on cloud deployment. It offers residents free digital reading services in Forest City through the Forest City Smart Community App “Forest Life”. Users can borrow eBooks anytime, anywhere by visiting the APP, enjoying ultimate experience of seamless global access.

Forest   City smart digital community library “ReadLife”

“Readlife” included global best sellers with a wide variety of books covering three languages

By leveraging copyright resources of “OverDrive” across the world, the “Readlife” digital library provides users with a wealth of original books in various genres, including Literature, Encyclopedias, Biographies, Philosophy, Art, Children Books, etc., covering Malay, English and Chinese languages. “OverDrive” is the world's leading provider of digital content such as e-books, audio books and videos. It has signed more than 5,000 publishers to obtain copyright resources, with nearly 4 million content reserves. The internationally renowned book publisher Harper Collins, Random House, Hachette, and Scholastic are the contract authorizing publishers of “OverDrive”. It is now serving more than 30,000 libraries, schools and cultural institutions around the world, including the Capital Library of China, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Library, the Library of Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), and the public libraries among major cities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and many other countries all over the world.

Some e-books in the digital library

“Readlife” provides grading of children books & offers audio books Read by native speakers for better learning

In addition to a great amount of international books, "Readlife" also introduced a series of audio books narrated by professional actors and announcers in their mother tongue. These read-along eBooks with native speakers dubbing offer distinct reading experience that enhances language learning. It will be a perfect learning tool that helps readers learning language to achieve accurate pronunciation. Moreover, eBooks for children in “Readlife” have standardized reading levels. These levels are calculated according to text difficulty and presented as a range of grades in American standard with reference of American students’ English proficiency levels. By following it, parents can choose appropriate books for their children and make reading more fun so as to improve learning outcomes.

The audio books for children

To build an innovative and smart community, Forest City launched “Readlife”to provide digital reading service

As the first smart community digital library in Malaysia, “Readlife” aims to provide convenient and fast digital reading services for visitors and residents around the world, and to meet the reading needs of different groups of people in Forest City. Compared to traditional libraries, there are no space and time limit for “Readlife”. Readers are able to read whenever they have a free moment in a hectic day.

Fantastic, isn’t it? What are you waiting for? Hurry up to download the Forest Life APP and log in to the digital library and start your reading journey!

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