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    Nintendo Bringing Book Collection DS to Europe

    on 30.11.2008 at 17:16 User Icon Posted by Shane Jury (Phoenixus) Number of Comments Comments: 16 Number of Reads Reads: 1387
    Tag Tags: DS, Books, Shakespeare, Dickens, Nintendo
    The previously-rumoured DS Novel title from Nintendo has now been given a new title, and a release date for Boxing day of this year in Europe.


    Retitled 100 Classic Book Collection, the cartridge will live up to its name by offering DS owners 100 timeless novels from authors such as Dickens, Austen, Shakespeare and Bronte. There will be a bookmark feature and a search tool for those with time and taste restrictions.

    Explained in more detail at Nintendo Europe's site, the DS would be held as you'd expect, in a book-like manner with the stylus free to turn pages. There will also be Author Mini-Biographies, and Wi-Fi Connection support to receive further books.

    The full list of books that will be available have been revealed on Amazon's pre-order page, they are as follows;

    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- Round 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


    100 Classic Book Collection will slightly miss the Christmas rush, and be released at a approximate price-point of £19.99 on Boxing Day.
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     L88 Super Sonic

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    Well I've liked quite a lot of the "non games" that Nintendo have released...but this ones a definite "no thank you" for me...
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    This would be a great tool for Colleges if they let you doodle on the pages; quite a few of those books were in my AS English classes. Smilie

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    I'm actually a quite tempted by that. Bet it'll be dirt cheap before long. Smilie
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    Ikana said:
    I'm actually a quite tempted by that. Bet it'll be dirt cheap before long. Smilie
    You like your Charles Dickens and Shakespeare?

    I've not read a book since my English GCSE Smilie
    Though I would like to get back to reading some sometime, it won't be anything from that list.
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     L28 Wiggler

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    oooooh.. I'm willing to buy this, really I am, those are some good books.
    hoooooooooo!!!! Smilie

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     L81 Chun-Li

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    Holy shit that is awesome!
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    bored -_-
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     L87 Eggman

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    is that bookworm in the game or did u guy just google for it lol
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    Wow! I LOVE to read, so I may find myself getting this, if it comes to the US. I figured they would make something like this at some point, but I did not think they would be so generous with the size and selection!
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     L11 Koopa

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    Would love this!
    My English teacher is making us read Julius Caesar
    [Though I can't understand a word!]
    I absolutely hate the literature we have, it's large and we need it everyday, along with 5 other similarly sized books.
    Having it in DS form would be great for when I need it in other classes or I forget my book!
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     L100 C3 Master

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    So public domain?
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     L6 Deku Scrub

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    Jack London- The Call of the Wild
    Jack London- White Fang

    I love those!!!

    And E. A. Poe is great too. But, English isn't my first language, and, even if it was, there's no way I'm buying this. I so much prefer to have a book in my hands.
    on 30.11.2008 at 21:30
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     L74 Olimar

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    Ah! The Classics! This may be a good way for some people to avoid paying overpriced fees to buy books necessary for certain English classes...Or a substitute to book pirating...
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     L32 Deku Baba

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    Thts pretty cool, if only it would be a book reader and we would pay for each book to download, but 20 euros for this shit is nice.
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    Have completely mastered Hiragana! :D Now for Katakana. *puts war paint on*
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    Jump_button said:
    is that bookworm in the game or did u guy just google for it lol


    Gotta love google. Smilie

    Took me a while to decide on that picture; if my Photoshop skills were up to scratch I'd have replaced that Book with a DS Lite. Smilie

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    Wow, that\'s pretty cool. I\'ve read Pride and Prejudice (my [ex] girlfriend encouraged me, I loved it!) and I have all the Shakespeare works (it\'s amazing what you can buy for 3 euro).
    iCAME said:
    So public domain?
    Yep, no more copy-right on them. All books are (probably) older than 100 years. So it didn\'t cost Nintendo a thing to put them on cartridge!
    PK Mongoose *RIP Dalton* said:
    Or a substitute to book pirating...
    You can\'t pirate those books. Smilie
    You can only pirate certain editions of the book, but not the story itself. So go download. Smilie

    Do you think it reads better if you turn off the frontlight of the DS screen? I thought the light might hurt your eyes like a monitor does, but maybe frontlight doesn\'t have tha problem.

    ( Edited 01.12.2008 09:30 by Canyarion )

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    To be honest, I reckon this deserves to do better than Cooking Guide...I'm certainly looking forward to it! I wonder how different the line-up of books in the Japanese version was?


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