I SHAKE MY FIST IN FURY AT THE EXCLUSION OF AUSTEN'S NORTHANGER ABBEY!!!

Great, ports of 400 year-old books.



jk, this is a good deal. I would probably read a lot of these on DS.

Wow...wait a second....you're...you're right... THEY'RE PORTING BOOKS.

I've heard that they've removed any words that are over two syllables.

for purposes of space, i rather pay $20 and have this on my stand, than that many books.

problem is i rarely read books.

Now I don't mind the idea of applications for DS, not really game but make something useful.

How about instead of buying a Text book for College or School, you just buy the book on DS and update it via Wifi? That way I don't have to spend $50-140 on a college book.

Or how about an version of TI-83 calculator I can play on my DS. Have a clean interface and I only have to pay $30 instead of $80+ range. Having two screens and one being a touch screen would be amazing easy for TI-83 calculations.

The Personal Chief game does look useful, so I do have hope the effort they put into that will go into other non-game applications like this.

Agreed Mr. Vega, and brilliant ideas.

Heck, I can already see applications to HS English Classes here! The only Shakespeare plays I studied in HS are all here! Macbeth, Julius Ceasar, Antony and Cleopatra! And of course Dickens is always a classic...

N/A

Mark Twain once wrote that a classic is "something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."

Speaking of definitions:

Critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.

UPB. I think  I agree.

Ok. Where's my Bible with commentaries, dictionaries and all of those books in my library?

I could really use em for my DS :D

Can you imagine giving a sermon, not with my laptop, but with my DS? haha

Not a bad idea but I think the DS screen is a little small for this.  Think of the size of the DS screens and then imagine a physical book with pages that small.

Mark Twain also said that a library without Jane Austen is a good collection. RAAAGGGGEEEEEE

This is true, and I'm not sure but it didn't look like they fit a lot of words on the screen from the very poor views that Amazon gave me.

Plus what if the gap between the screens cuts out a couple sentences on every page LOL SONIC MEGA COLLECTION ALL OVER AGAIN AM I RIGHT

I've read Elite Beat Agents fanfiction sci-fi short stories on the DS using Moonshell, and it's fine in small doses. Oddly enough, though, I'd much rather hold the system DS-style than Book-style for this sort of application. I wonder if this pack has both options.

wouldn't the logical solution would be FORCE "book style" or Brain Age style holding of the DS, so that isn't an issue and you could probably get more text that way too

People have to remember that the whole point of these "read on DS" games is to appeal to the people that never owned a book.  If somebody never owned a book, then why would they have a book style option?

In Nintendo's mind, they probably feel that the older fanbase that would play these with a book anyway, already bought them on book when they were first released and as a result probably wouldn't buy the DS version in the first place.

IMO the current DS and upcoming DSi screen is just too small.  Nice to see they're working it in, maybe it'll be better served on the DSseQuel

Ambrose Bierce.  8)

I doubt anyone old enough to have bought Great Expectations when it was first released is worth targeting now anyway.

(Possible rejoinder:  "Of course they need to buy it again on DS!  It's too dark in a coffin to read a book.")

Those words are from a poster defending a certain game cube port's controls being yanked out simply to appeal to non-game-cube-owners / casuals. Here's another poster:

Again, this is called "Read it on DS". The point of the whole line is to read classic books with enhanced dual screen controls. Its the main selling point of the series. While having the option would have been nice it would have defeated the purpose of reading a classic with new controls.

I already read the original with classic controls, and it was great. The main reason I want to read it again is because it offers new controls at a budget price. And I'm sure I am not the only one that feels this way.

Call it stupidity, call it blind fanboyism, call it whatever you want. I accepted the "Read on DS" series as DS control heavy ports of classic books.

Yeah, well, I need a book with more turning.

This is a great idea. I have a homebrew book reader on my DS and it really isn't bad. I totally enjoy it. I would enjoy a legitimate one even more so.

What is there target market Chad or Burkina Faso?  Are there honestly North American people with money that have never owned a book?  Maybe at 27 I'm just too f*cking old but I don't know anyone who has NEVER owned a book.  I don't read books that often but I still own quite a few.  Even if you just read comics the concept of a book layout would be familiar to you.

But in all seriousness I'm not a grade school kid in the internet age and I never was.  Is it normal now for young people to have no real interaction with books?  Just hearing anecdotes about my co-workers teenage kids suggests that even at only a ten year age difference they live in a completely different world than I am.

Those words are from a poster defending a certain game cube port's controls being yanked out simply to appeal to non-game-cube-owners / casuals.

My personal "oh my god the world has passed me by" moments come from when I'm helping someone with math homework and they pull out a calculator to do their times tables instead of knowing them by heart. Do kids today get handed pocket calculators at grade 3 or something?

If so, that is a shame and a crime. Cuz that's when I first started learning them, forwards and backwards and sideways

i just noticed this on Nintendo's front page, this is kinda nice. I couldnt find the list of books, on any other site, but luckily typing Nintendoworldreport in google always is handy

coming june 13th