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Title: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software
Post by: Kairon on December 09, 2008, 07:52:53 PM
Nintendo's 100 Classic Book Collection for the DS will utilize Nintendo Wi-Fi and include authors like Jane Austen, Mark Twain, and The Bard himself, Shakespeare.
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=17349

 Still without an official announcement, the lineup of titles included in Nintendo's 100 Classic Book Collection was recently revealed not through Nintendo or partner Harper Collins, but an entry on Amazon UK.    


In addition to the list of 100 classic works of Western literature, the Amazon site also revealed that the title would allow users to download 10 additional books via Nintendo Wi-Fi, and rank their favorite titles via the service. With the DS held "like a book" and using the touch screen to turn pages, the software will also offer search options so users can select a title to suit their mood and time allowances.    


The game is listed for a December 26 release date in the UK. There is currently no information on releases in other territories.    


The list of included titles from the Amazon, arranged by author, can be seen below.    


   


Thanks to reader Rabicle for the tip!

Title: Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software
Post by: Kairon on December 09, 2008, 08:14:54 PM
I SHAKE MY FIST IN FURY AT THE EXCLUSION OF AUSTEN'S NORTHANGER ABBEY!!!
Title: Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software
Post by: King of Twitch on December 09, 2008, 10:57:14 PM
Great, ports of 400 year-old books.



jk, this is a good deal. I would probably read a lot of these on DS.
Title: Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software
Post by: Kairon on December 09, 2008, 11:22:07 PM
Quote from: Zap on December 09, 2008, 10:57:14 PM
Great, ports of 400 year-old books.

Wow...wait a second....you're...you're right... THEY'RE PORTING BOOKS.
Title: Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software
Post by: NWR_Lindy on December 09, 2008, 11:37:56 PM
I've heard that they've removed any words that are over two syllables.
Title: Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software
Post by: AV on December 10, 2008, 12:13:39 AM
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.
Title: Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software
Post by: Kairon on December 10, 2008, 12:28:15 AM
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...
Title: N/A
Post by: Michael8983 on December 10, 2008, 01:03:24 AM
N/A
Title: Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software
Post by: UltimatePartyBear on December 10, 2008, 12:53:13 PM
Mark Twain once wrote that a classic is "something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."
Title: Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software
Post by: KDR_11k on December 10, 2008, 01:53:52 PM
Speaking of definitions:

Critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
Title: Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software
Post by: DAaaMan64 on December 10, 2008, 02:08:36 PM
UPB. I think  I agree.
Title: Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software
Post by: Toruresu on December 10, 2008, 05:54:04 PM
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
Title: Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software
Post by: Ian Sane on December 10, 2008, 06:16:26 PM
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.
Title: Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software
Post by: Kairon on December 10, 2008, 08:42:25 PM
Quote from: UltimatePartyBear on December 10, 2008, 12:53:13 PM
Mark Twain once wrote that a classic is "something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."

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

Quote from: Ian Sane on December 10, 2008, 06:16:26 PM
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.

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.
Title: Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software
Post by: King of Twitch on December 10, 2008, 08:48:58 PM
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
Title: Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software
Post by: LuigiHann on December 11, 2008, 12:00:24 AM
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.
Title: Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software
Post by: AV on December 11, 2008, 02:56:01 AM
Quote from: Zap on December 10, 2008, 08:48:58 PM
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

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
Title: Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software
Post by: King of Twitch on December 11, 2008, 03:06:54 AM
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.
Title: Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software
Post by: D_Average on December 11, 2008, 10:00:42 AM
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
Title: Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software
Post by: UltimatePartyBear on December 11, 2008, 12:23:29 PM
Quote from: KDR_11k on December 10, 2008, 01:53:52 PM
Speaking of definitions:

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

Ambrose Bierce.  8)


Quote from: Zap on December 11, 2008, 03:06:54 AM
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.

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.")
Title: Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software
Post by: King of Twitch on December 11, 2008, 12:37:43 PM
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.
Title: Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software
Post by: UltimatePartyBear on December 11, 2008, 01:05:31 PM
Yeah, well, I need a book with more turning.
Title: Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software
Post by: MaleficentOgre on December 11, 2008, 05:00:19 PM
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.
Title: Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software
Post by: Ian Sane on December 11, 2008, 05:18:33 PM
Quote
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?

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.
Title: Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software
Post by: King of Twitch on December 11, 2008, 05:25:23 PM
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.
Title: Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software
Post by: Kairon on December 11, 2008, 09:17:57 PM
Quote from: Ian Sane on December 11, 2008, 05:18:33 PM
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.

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?
Title: Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software
Post by: King of Twitch on December 12, 2008, 12:57:05 PM
If so, that is a shame and a crime. Cuz that's when I first started learning them, forwards and backwards and sideways
Title: Re: Library of 100 Classics Revealed for Nintendo's eBook Software
Post by: ThePerm on May 25, 2010, 10:30:30 PM
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

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