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DS News by Oli Welsh
Nintendo is finally realising its long-held literary aspirations with the announcement of 100 Classic Book Collection for DS.
The software, released on Boxing Day for GBP 19.99 in collaboration with publisher Harper Collins, features 100 classic (i.e. out of copyright) plays and novels compiled on a single cart.
According to Nintendo Europe's site, you read holding the DS like a book, and flicking through the pages with the stylus. There are search and bookmark functions - and additional works available to download via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.
Amazon has the full list of books included. You get 21 Shakespeare plays, 13 Dickens novels, and all the canonical corset-busting classics you'd expect from Jane Austen, Charlott Bronte, Thomas Hardy, Herman Melville and the like.
The collection has a lighter side too, though, with a couple of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries, some high adventure from Alexandre Dumas, Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevenson, wit from Wilde, Swift and Twain, an Edgar Allen Poe collection, and even a bit of racy old D. H. Lawrence for bored housewives everywhere.
"This product does not require age classification, but some texts include expressions, themes or elements that may be considered inappropriate for young children," says Nintendo. No kidding.
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Great idea.
I love how they only have books that are 100 years or older. So no more copy-right. ;) If you want you can also download those books. Do you think it reads better if you turn off the frontlight of the DS screen? I thought the light might hurt your eyes like a monitor does, but maybe frontlight doesn't have tha problem. |
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kangarootoo
01/12/08 @ 09:35
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Can it read basic text files of the user's choosing? There is only mention of downloading extra content afaics.
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DoctorZoidberg
01/12/08 @ 09:53
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Extra content would be great, think how much space you could save from carrying books around (if you so choose).
This could actually work out really well for nintendo. Could link it into educational practices etc etc. |
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I've been using DSLibris on an R4 cart as my ebook reader and it works really well!
You can download loads of free books and easily drop them into it (eg Guttenberg Project). Good control over font (and text size) and brightness. Finally, you can also invert the colours so at night I have white text, black background and vice versa during the day! |
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ayrtonsenna
01/12/08 @ 10:14
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A nice distraction for their programmers - perhaps they could write some games now??
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the_dudefather
01/12/08 @ 11:01
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@Canyarion
'I love how they only have books that are 100 years or older. So no more copy-right. ;)' works for Wii music |
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Markusdragon
01/12/08 @ 11:02
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Lovely idea, but much cheaper to just download them off of Project Gutenburg.
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clockworkzombie
01/12/08 @ 11:42
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I like the sound of this. The only problem with these out of copyright items is the language. Some of the books will be obtuse for sure.
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"The collection has a lighter side too, though, with a couple of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries, some high adventure from Alexandre Dumas, Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevenson, wit from Wilde, Swift and Twain, an Edgar Allen Poe collection, and even a bit of racy old D. H. Lawrence for bored housewives everywhere."
OK Oli now I know you're not setting yourself up as F. R. Leavis but, really... come on. Lawrence is not some kind of fluffy lightweight gusset-busting housewife trash. Naughty. Beta gamma double minus. >:p |
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