LeapFrog? Tag Reading System (16 MB)
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Toys and Games Reviews of LeapFrog? Tag Reading System (16 MB)
Customer Review: Amazing reading system!
Summary: 5 Stars
I was absolutely amazed with the Tag reading system. My little boy just turned 4 and loves it!!! The pen reads every word on the page, or you can have it read the whole page or whole story. Every picture on every page also has sound effects or talks. Certain pages with a green star on them have games to play too. We have 4 books so far and they are all wonderful. Kids can learn so much by using this. I was very impressed and it was a great purchase. I highly recommend it. Downloading the audio books to the tag pen from the computer was a breeze (and we have a Mac). I give it 2 thumbs up!Customer Review: Great toy, but get the 32 mb instead
Summary: 5 Stars
The tag reading system is awesome. My little bookworm is in heaven. Luckily, we just purchased ours now that the 32 mb is available, so it has enough memory for 10 books instead of just 5. For some reason this 16 mb version is still the same price as the new one. As the book selection rapidly expands, the extra memory is a necessity. Maybe next year we'll be blessed with 64 mb with an expansion slot! Customer Review: Fun while you learn
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this for my daughter for Christmas. I will have to add more once she starts to play with it, but I checked it out and am very happy with it.Customer Review: Good fun, but willit teach your kids to read?
Summary: 4 Stars
We did a full, in-depth review of the Tag on our blog at [...]. Here's an excerpt:
We spent quite a bit of time watching our two boys use this and had some discussions with them about the system as well. Overall the kids really liked it. We liked it too. It's neat, it's well designed, it's cool, and quite frankly, it's fun. But the key question for us was, will this teach your kids to read? Probably not. As great as this product is, it's more about making books enjoyable and about listening comprehension. There's no doubt that both of these are really good things. Anything that gets a kid to pick up a physical book and spend time with it these days is a good thing. However, if you're looking for a system to help your child learn to read, this might not be it. The way we see this working best as a learning tool is if parents actively engage with their kids while they're using this system. When kids are unguided with the Tag, I think they're going to default to listening and game mode, and like I said before, nothing wrong with that. But for real learning, turning off the "read it to me" feature is probably best. And keeping it off most likely requires the aid of mom or dad. With the "read to me" feature off, struggling or even advanced readers can use the reader only to help them with words they are having difficulty with. I think that goes a long way to helping kids learn to read.
And on a separate note, systems like the Tag are great for keeping kids entertained and engaged with books. But, I really believe that as parents, we need to see them and understand them as a good addition to but not a substitute for personal, snuggle-up, reading time. Well, that's my two-cents anyway.
Overall we give the LeapFrog Tag Reading System 4 out of 5 for great design, incredible technology and innovation, entertainment value, and sheer enjoyment. The storage capacity and battery-life both present some technical issues that could have easily been resolved in design and really hinder the overall score of this product. In addition, we'd like to have seen a bit more work done on creating incentives for the kids to read more on their own. That said, this is another rock-solid product from LeapFrog.
Customer Review: Software is HORRIBLE
Summary: 2 Stars
I recently purchased this for my 5 year old daughter. I thought the idea of it was great, and she loves to read. However, the software for this tool is so bad as to render it almost unusable. First, I installed the latest software from the internet, skipping the CD. As soon as it was installed, it told me I needed an update for it to work. Took 4 times before the update finally was able to install. Then I downloaded three more books of audio files from the Connect website. But I am now unable to synch the new files with the pen. I have tried repeatedly and it always fails. So, as of now I have three worthless, but pricey, books, and the only book that is on the pen is Cat in the Hat which came with it.
It is unbelievable to me that they can't get this to work. The technology for synching files between two devices has been around for what? TWENTY YEARS???? at least.
Also, the software interface is horribly slow. This is really not that complicated of a system - please, leapfrog, just spend the money to do it right. Do you really want reviews like this?
FYI: I am an IT project manager and work with technology all day everyday.
Buyer Beware......