DS #3212: 100 Classic Book Collection (Europe)

[reimu]

Wow, this looks great

I love the collection *huge Austen/Shakespeare/classic lit fan*

 

[Cablephish]

The list on the first page is incomplete, unless they shorted us some books. According to a GFAQs post:

* Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
* Jane Austen - Emma
* Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
* Jane Austen - Persuasion
* Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
* Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
* Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
* R.D. Blackmore - Lorna Doone
* Anne Bronte - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
* Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
* Charlotte Bronte - The Professor
* Charlotte Bronte - Shirley
* Charlotte Bronte - Villette
* Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
* John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress
* Frances Burnett - Little Lord Fauntleroy
* Frances Burnett - The Secret Garden
* Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
* Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking-Glass
* Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone
* Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White
* Carlo Collodi - The Adventures of Pinocchio
* Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
* Arthur Conan Doyle - The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
* Joseph Conrad - Lord Jim
* Susan Coolidge - What Katy Did
* James Fenimore Cooper - Last of the Mohicans
* Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
* Charles Dickens - Barnaby Rudge
* Charles Dickens - Bleak House
* Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
* Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
* Charles Dickens - Dombey and Son
* Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
* Charles Dickens - Hard Times
* Charles Dickens - Martin Chuzzlewit
* Charles Dickens - Nicholas Nickleby
* Charles Dickens - The Old Curiosity Shop
* Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
* Charles Dickens - The Pickwick Papers
* Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
* Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo
* Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers
* George Eliot - Adam Bede
* George Eliot - Middlemarch
* George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss
* Henry Rider Haggard - King Solomon's Mines
* Thomas Hardy - Far From The Madding Crowd
* Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge
* Thomas Hardy - Tess of The D'Urbervilles
* Thomas Hardy - Under the Greenwood Tree
* Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
* Victor Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
* Victor Hugo - Les Miserables
* Washington Irving - The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
* Charles Kingsley - Westward Ho!
* D.H. Lawrence - Sons And Lovers
* Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera
* Jack London - The Call of the Wild
* Jack London - White Fang
* Herman Melville - Moby Dick
* Edgar Allen Poe - Tales of Mystery and Imagination
* Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe
* Sir Walter Scott - Rob Roy
* Sir Walter Scott - Waverley
* Anna Sewell - Black Beauty
* William Shakespeare - All's Well That Ends Well
* William Shakespeare - Antony and Cleopatra
* William Shakespeare - As You Like It
* William Shakespeare - The Comedy of Errors
* William Shakespeare - Hamlet
* William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar
* William Shakespeare - King Henry the Fifth
* William Shakespeare - King Lear
* William Shakespeare - King Richard the Third
* William Shakespeare - Love's Labour's Lost
* William Shakespeare - Macbeth
* William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice
* William Shakespeare - A Midsummer-Night's Dream
* William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing
* William Shakespeare - Othello, the Moor of Venice
* William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
* William Shakespeare - The Taming of the Shrew
* William Shakespeare - The Tempest
* William Shakespeare - Timon of Athens
* William Shakespeare - Titus Andronicus
* William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night
* William Shakespeare - The Winter's Tale
* Robert Louis Stevenson - Kidnapped
* Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
* Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island
* Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels
* William Thackeray - Vanity Fair
* Anthony Trollope - Barchester Towers
* Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
* Mark Twain - Adventures of Tom Sawyer
* Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days
* Jules Verne - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
* Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest
* Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

Wow one of my ISU books is in here!! Amazing! I'm so getting this.

 

[Just Joe]

The only books on that list that I interested in, I've already read. Suppose it's great to have 110 books with you on holiday, but I still prefer the good old ink and bound paper type myself. I don't need that many books, I just plan my reading and take the books I want.

 

[Vague Rant]

Hell yes: Mark Twain, the best American ever.

 

[Feels Good Man]

Aw.. only if there was Frankenstein.

 

[Ferrariman]

I suppose you could just get DS Reader and a whole bunch of Project Gutenberg books

 

[al3000]

111 books

 

[dipper145]

I want to read a ton of these books. Jane Austen's best books I definately want to read them all, some of the Charles Dickens ones, Jack London, Lewis Carol, Shakespears, Jules Verne, and Mark Twain. So many good books. A little dissapointing it doesn't have some of the books I consider classics aswell, but I guess you can only have so many!

Unfortunately, just thinking about reading a whole book on a ds is giving me massive headaches and really bad eyestrain. It just seems like such a bad idea since I already spend enough time staring at the computer, my eyesight would just get worse and worse if I read the books I read at night on the DS.

Also I just ordered 16 books of amazon for 50$. I prefer owning the books. And with doverthrift editions that are like 2.50$/book its worth it, at least to me. There's just something about owning the acualy copy of the book that makes it so much better when reading.

I hope this gets people into reading though, as its great.

Acually I just finished reading the strange case of dr.jeckyl and mr.hyde yesterday, acually I read it all in a day. Its only like 54 pages. Awsome books though. And I'm currently reading Jane Austen's Persuasion (the last book she wrote before she died).

I would recommend certain books on this for people to read, but you really can't go wrong, they are all pretty great. After all, thats why they are called classics. There are at least 50 books on this list that are on my: Classic books I want to read list.

Also, It's (almost) Christmas Eve! Download this and read Charle's Dickens - A Christmas Carol!. I'm going to be reading it tonight, and on my break at lunch tomorrow, sure it may be a bit cheesy, but what better novel to read on christmas??

(I think I've gone on long enough, sorry. I just like books.)

 

[YumYumSauce]

* Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest
* Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray


DOWNLOADED!!
Whodathunk I would be so excited about reading

 

[Cermage]

someone get custom books going on this. then ill be interested. the interface seems nice, more polished than dsreader or dslibris. and it has sounds! i wouldnt mind reading and pretending to be in an airport xD

 

[gillman]

did some poking around with DSLazy. All the books seem neatly placed in .bin files labeled from 0-111, it seems like it would be easy for someone with experience to make a hack out of this, but I really have no idea how it would be done.

 

[Ferrariman]

Would be cool if we we could add any .txt file to this, as it seems like the best E-book reader on DS

 

[Law]

What? No Bram Stoker's Dracula?

Are you shitting me?

 

[paultoompas]

Secret Garden

 

[dinofan01]

I was hopping for Frankenstein in this since I had to read that next semester and it wouldn't hurt to get a leg up.

 

[NatsuMatto]

Unfortunately, just thinking about reading a whole book on a ds is giving me massive headaches and really bad eyestrain. It just seems like such a bad idea since I already spend enough time staring at the computer, my eyesight would just get worse and worse if I read the books I read at night on the DS.

Can't speak for you, but I've been reading ebooks for years and have no problem... I started on my palm device, then my pocketpc, and now I use mobipocket reader on my blackberry curve. Never had any issues with eyestrain or anything else.

I like real books, but there's something to be said the ultra-convenience of having a bunch of books at your fingertips.

I wish this DS collection wasn't so dominated by Shakespeare, Dickens, and the Bronte family, though.

the program also includes a really weird "quiz" that is supposed to tell you which book you should read. I've tried it twice, and I gotta say I am completely baffled how those few questions lead this program to recommend the books that it does.

 

[Maktub]

I'll take a look at that quiz and try to find out why those questions...

If only someone could convert ebooks to read them on this program..!!!

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from all the reviews I decided to buy acekard 2..

what?

 

[NatsuMatto]

Just discovered a problem-- I went online and downloaded the additional 10 books they offered, but each time I try and return to read, the program locks up. When I restart, it tells me the download data is corrupt, and it deletes two of the files. When I attempt to go back online and download the two books again, it does the exact same thing.

I'm going to try it with an untrimmed ROM and see if it makes a difference.

EDIT: Still does it with an untrimmed ROM... the books it keeps deleting are Turn of the Screw and Waterbabies. Not sure if this is the same for everyone.

Is this happening because the 512KB standard save size on the CycloDS is too small?

 

[iPikachu]

I "like" shakespeare 0_o theres a lot of his books eh.

 

[Lord Toon]

Just discovered a problem-- I went online and downloaded the additional 10 books they offered, but each time I try and return to read, the program locks up. When I restart, it tells me the download data is corrupt, and it deletes two of the files. When I attempt to go back online and download the two books again, it does the exact same thing.

I'm going to try it with an untrimmed ROM and see if it makes a difference.

EDIT: Still does it with an untrimmed ROM... the books it keeps deleting are Turn of the Screw and Waterbabies. Not sure if this is the same for everyone.

Is this happening because the 512KB standard save size on the CycloDS is too small?

I'm using an EDGE card and it does the same thing as well...Wonder what gives?//