If you felt that being a hardcore gamer just isn't uncool enough these days (hell, everyone has a DS now), then perhaps you'll be looking to raise the nerd stakes considerably by acquiring the 100 Classic Book Collection for DS.
Yes, starting from Boxing Day (December 26 to you non-UK chaps), you can get your hands on 100 classic plays and novels, crammed into a single DS cart. By classic, we do of course mean copyright-free. That also means no Harry f*cking Potter ... thank God.
As if you couldn't already guess the central gimmick, the idea is to hold the DS sideways, mimicking a book, and you can flick through pages with the stylus. There are to be search and bookmark functions, and additional literature will be made available in Wi-Fi download form.
Amazon has the full list of titles included, but for an idea of what you'd be getting into, there will be Shakespeare, Dickens, Bronte, Hardy and Austen, as well as less dreary stuff like Arthur Conan Doyle and Jules Verne.
For the amount and variety of books that come included, an asking price of £17.99 looks like an amazing deal to me. I must say, this is actually a great idea.
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9:14 AM on 12.01.2008
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Also, we need Boxing Day in the US, but instead of December's Black Friday or the more traditional day of charity, it should be a day when you can beat the shit out of anyone and everyone without retribution.
Highly unlikely that that'll happen though. Would be nice though.
Now is no longer the case, but we keep the day because, hey, everyone likes an extra day of old family movies on TV.
Where do you buy your books? Either that's an on sale hardback or a drastically marked up paperback. Slightly marked up trade?
That list needs R.A. Salvatore and George R. R. Martin >:-(
It's just the choice of "classics." Some are good (The Idiot, War and Peace) and some are terrible (The Old Man and the Sea). Unfortunately, the terrible ones are usually taught.
Are you joking? So you're saying the DS' "full potential" is displaying static images of text?
It's a sad state of affairs when something as simple as this gets more attention and praise than the last 50 DS games released.
GIVE ME SOMETHING TO PLAY ON MY DS, NINTENDO!
If you're paying that much for a single book (as many of you say you are), then you're doing it wrong.
This has long been an ability of many DS flash carts. Yes, OMG. Flash carts for things other than NOT games? Yes. My prefered tool is DSLibris. Great for Creative Commons works an not just public domain stuffs.
Sounds like fun.
Do you think there is a chance for an American release?
I do believe that the 100 classic titles will be coming to US shores with titles more relevant to the US market.
I don't know when though, but there is another review at ;
http://www.ndsbooks.co.uk/
Worth a read, and their news section/news letter might keep you up to date on the US issue.