DS #4961: 100 Classic Books (USA)

[I am r4ymond]

Bah, not getting this until it has Artemis Fowl, Harry Potter, Maximum Ride, the Inheritance Trilogy, stories by Edgar Allen Poe, those books by the dude who wrote Wicked, the LOLcat Bible, something with sex in it, and the fucking Necronomicon.

Hmm...wasn't there a "DS Game" for Artemis Fowl? Flips: Artemis Fowl?

Wtfzorz

 

[Depravo]

LAWL this game has AP?

choosing start reading sends you back through the loading screens and back to the menu.

Try the (E) version. It has the same books and I don't remember it having any AP.

 

[xeronut]

They're "classic" because the authors have been dead long enough for their works to be public domain, meaning the developers had a lot less work on their hands obtaining any rights still held to this stuff. Why put Harry Potter in ONE book collection on the DS, when you can devote a game to HALF of ONE book and sell scads more copies? Oh yeah, and Rowling is far from dead, let alone by 75 years or whatever the time limit is. If you live long enough, I'm sure y'all can have your dream lineup in a collection someday - until then, isn't there a PDF reader for the DS somewhere?

I'm a bookworm, and even I find a lot of this stuff boring as hell. Nice collection though.

 

[Salax]

Why does this have Nintendo WFC?

 

[Inunah]

Bah, not getting this until it has Artemis Fowl, Harry Potter, Maximum Ride, the Inheritance Trilogy, stories by Edgar Allen Poe, those books by the dude who wrote Wicked, the LOLcat Bible, something with sex in it, and the fucking Necronomicon.

Hmm...wasn't there a "DS Game" for Artemis Fowl? Flips: Artemis Fowl?

Wtfzorz

It didn't catch my attention enough since it didn't have any of the other stuff.

 

[rad140]

Yeah, it's all public domain stuff. So Nintendo will be making huge profits on this as the the licensing fees for this are 0. A smart marketing move, but you can get all of these for free online.
And you could download them and read them on your flashcart, making this software entirely useless.

Anyone with a flashcart and Moonshell can do the exact same this thing can do, and more, for free.

Why does this have Nintendo WFC?

Apparently there are 10 extra titles you can download. No word if there will be any more.

 

[GreatCrippler]

Gonna get this... I have read almost all of them, but I still think this is way too cool.

 

[Arm73]

Regardless of the choice of content, I'd rather be interested in the actual interface.
I mean somewhere in there there must be a professional made, fully customizable text reader, or am I wrong ?
Now hacking this kind of rom and using our favorite material ( kind of like the GH3 custom editions ), wouldn't be half bad.
Did anybody try it ? How's the text handled ? Better then moonshell, or am I wrong ?

 

[q2k2k]

reading on a game system without playing a game made me lol

 

[Rayder]

You know, I prefer to read an ACTUAL book as opposed wasting the DS's battery just to read stories.

 

[Pliskron]

You need to generate a 1mb sav to download all the books

 

[SkankyYankee]

You know, I prefer to read an ACTUAL book as opposed wasting the DS's battery just to read stories.

Squinting at text to a book that it thicker than a ds while you are hunched over is a lot less convenient that the book itself. I find audiobooks great if you need books on the go.

Might as well go brush up on my Jane Austen.

 

[I am r4ymond]

I don't find any of these books of any interest. They're boring to me. I've read A Christmas Carol already, so I know what most of these books in this game are like.

 

[Indie]

The reason it has the message on the front is because the ESRB does not rate classic literature.

 

[Inunah]

The reason it has the message on the front is because the ESRB does not rate classic literature.

Not even if it has explicit descriptions of ravenous sex?

 

[arogance1]

You could always try DSLibris.
I have 6Gb of Sci-Fi and Fantasy EBooks, every Asimov in there

 

[BlueStar]

something with sex in it

There's lots of Shakespeare plays in this collection, plenty of diddling in those.

 

[camurso_]

Can´t wait to play this one...

 

[pieman202]

oh. it has Othello.

guess im getting this.

I'm wondering what would happen if someone brought their DS/i/XL to class instead of the real book. Many listed are books people actually have to read for school...Othello, Hamlet, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Wuthering Heights, Scarlet Letter, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, etc.

My english teacher let me use it to read macbeth last year =P

 

[kingsanto]

This won't do well with the kids since there are no Twilight books on it.

It's an interesting selection. I've never been one to read ebooks. I like things I can hold with paper pages to flip.