Learning to read takes books. Learning to read well, and developing a love of reading, takes lots of books.  Books at all different skill levels. But how are low-literacy language communities ever to get all those books in their language?  They can do it with Bloom. Shell Books Bloom uses collections of "shell books" that come with multiple source languages. Read the ones you understand, type in a translation in your language, and you're done! Templates Bloom comes with templates for Picture Dictionaries, Wall Calendars, and a "Basic Book" with template pages for the most common simple books. Clear Intellectual Property Rights Bloom helps authors and illustrators record copyright and select a license. Multilingual Books Toggle between monolingual, bilingual, and trilingual layouts Open, Standard Format Bloom books are based on the same formats as the Web and EPub Ebooks: HTML, Cascading Style Sheets, and Java Script PDF Booklets Click on Bloom's Publish tab, and voilà! You have a PDF file laid out as a booklet, ready for saving or printing.