Nintendo Enters the E-book Buisness

From the Guardian:

“The creator of Donkey Kong and Super Mario is hoping that Austen and Dickens will prove as great a pull to computer game fanatics. It has worked with HarperCollins to select 100 titles - from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to Gulliver’s Travels, Pride and Prejudice, A Tale of Two Cities and Treasure Island –which will be available in a single software package for the Nintendo DS costing around £20.”

OMG, yes!  This is exciting news, and it makes so much sense.  The DS is cheap, user friendly, light… in short everything that the present e-reader are not.  My only worry would be the quality of the display, and of course over long periods of time the reading experience would be much harder on the eyes.  I do like the recommendation/mood feature in this program.  Can you imagine what amazon/the kindle store might be like with this sort of feature?  I mean, the “Amazon recommends” feature is usually pretty good, but some days I am craving something outside of my purchasing box in which case the website is no help. From the Guardian: “The creator of Donkey Kong and Super Mario is hoping that Austen and Dicke

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