ebooks come to the Nintendo DS
Nintendo and HarperCollins are teaming up to turn the Nintendo DS into an eBook reader with their obviously titled 100 Classic Books Collection.
Essentially, twenty quid gets you 100 Project Gutenberg books dumped on a cart and wrapped with a remedial text reading program.
This isn't such a bad idea, but it depends on how well done they make the text reading program wrapper. Something as elegant and flexible as uBook for the Pocket PC would be great, but most of the text reading programs I've seen for the DS in the homebrew scene have had a real hard time displaying text attractively.
Really, I think the DS has promise as an ebook reader: it has the advantage of two screens, after all. But I'd prefer to see it as built-in functionality... perhaps a firmware update to the DSi.
Mario makes way for Shakespeare on Nintendo DS in HarperCollins deal [Times Online]
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Daemon
#1 – 11:46 AM December 12, 2008
sounds promising. i'm slowly beginning to consider getting one.
Dominic
#2 – 12:15 PM December 12, 2008
Free Homebrew DS Reader: http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=68172
Free Txt files from Project Gutenburg.
$6.63 DSTT Multimedia Card from DealExtreme: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.15613
Done, and you save (nearly) twenty quid.
spyker3292
#3 – 12:23 PM December 12, 2008
This is so much like Classics for the iPhone/Touch, just I'd rather use Classics. Sure it doesn't have as many books, but it's got a cleaner UI and is on a device I always have in my pocket :P. classicsapp.com
Fuzzy
#4 – 12:55 PM December 12, 2008
Myself, I'm a fan of the DSLibris reader for the DS: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndslibris/
Yaruki Zero
#5 – 2:18 PM December 12, 2008
In Japan, among the zillions of weird DS carts for everyday stuff they've been producing, there are a fair number with collections of stories from the greats of Japanese literature (Soseki, Akutagawa, etc.) For example, this one.
frankiez
#6 – 2:50 AM December 13, 2008
yes Yaruki! Actually as far as I know no ebook has sold more than few thousands copies in Japan, probably because Japanese users are already in love with ebooks on their mobile phones.