DS, 100 Classic Books Collection

Is this worth it.. thinking of getting it for the gf..

main concern is the readability of the text on screen..

also concerned about the amount of usage will get out of it..

and the selection of books... i recog alot of them as classics.. but are they good ones in ur opinion..

also.. anyone know the 10 additional downloadable books? are there a selection.. that you can choose from?

I bought it for my wife but she's not used it yet. It takes her ages to read anything so she's still reading a book that she started at new year.

Can't really comment on the books. Yes, they're all classics, so if you think your GF would read them then it might be worth getting.

Don't know if Moby Dick is on there, but I'm reading it on my iPhone at the moment and I'm finding it very hard going.

Worth it? Probably not - the books are largely, if not all available from Project Gutenberg, But it's a convienient way to carry around an entire library of classic books with you, and the interface, remeniscent of Brain Training, is quite nice. At the cost, it's hard to go wrong.

It's actually quite readable, though obiously the amount of text on the pages is quite small. f a real book was printed in that format, you'd have thosands of tiny pages, but it's not a problem for the DS.

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I'd imagine it to be very hard on the eyes. I certainly wouldn't fancy reading whole novels on the DS' small screens.

Well if the reading aloud test in Brain Training is anything to go by, the constant 'turning' of the page could be a bit of a head doer.

Why not just buy her a couple of real books that she actually wants to read instead?

PostRe: DS, 100 Classic Books Collection by **Cal** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:14 pm

That list, in full:

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

Yorkcityknight wrote:Well if the reading aloud test in Brain Training is anything to go by, the constant 'turning' of the page could be a bit of a head doer.

Why not just buy her a couple of real books that she actually wants to read instead?

Actually, it's not too bad - you can hold the DS near the bottom and turn the page quite easily with a tap on the D-pad.

marillion Col wrote:I bought it for my wife but she's not used it yet. It takes her ages to read anything so she's still reading a book that she started at new year.

Can't really comment on the books. Yes, they're all classics, so if you think your GF would read them then it might be worth getting.

Don't know if Moby Dick is on there, but I'm reading it on my iPhone at the moment and I'm finding it very hard going.

Moby Dick is hard going anyway. Too much stuff about the whaling industry and the anatomy of whales. You could chop out half that book and you would be left with an excellent novel. I guess editing wasn't big in the 19th century.

Tragic Magic wrote:I'd imagine it to be very hard on the eyes. I certainly wouldn't fancy reading whole novels on the DS' small screens.

The text isn't as small as it is in the books, you can obviously change the text size. It's quite nice if you want to read and not bother bringing a book around.

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My brother has it and seems to really like it. From my brief use with it it's great for what it is, the question is if you're interested in such a thing.

mokeyjoe wrote:
marillion Col wrote:I bought it for my wife but she's not used it yet. It takes her ages to read anything so she's still reading a book that she started at new year.

Can't really comment on the books. Yes, they're all classics, so if you think your GF would read them then it might be worth getting.

Don't know if Moby Dick is on there, but I'm reading it on my iPhone at the moment and I'm finding it very hard going.

Moby Dick is hard going anyway. Too much stuff about the whaling industry and the anatomy of whales. You could chop out half that book and you would be left with an excellent novel. I guess editing wasn't big in the 19th century.

Going off at a tangent here, but I'd strongly recommend In The Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick. It's a factual account of the true story that inspired Moby Dick, and is in my opinion a much better read. The fact that it's all real makes it so much more harrowing.

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I just want to point out how bizarre the posts with Moby Dick are to read with the swear filter on

Cal wrote:That list, in full:

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

Bolded the ones I'd bother reading.

Eurogamer didn't like it, too little text fitting on the screen, combined with relatively long, unskippable 'turn page' animations.

I'm stuck on the 3rd level.

Can anyone tell me how I beat the Capulet family to progress to the next level?

LewisD wrote:I'm stuck on the 3rd level.

Can anyone tell me how I beat the Capulet family to progress to the next level?

Mix the blue potion with the yellow potion, and give the resultant green potion to Dr Jekyll. He'll flip Juliet on to her back and you can attack her weak point for massive damage. You'll go up to a four star wanted level at this point, so you'll need to escape the Prince of Verona before you can get the blue tunic to go on to the Jules Vernes' underwater level.

Fail, thats about 80 classic books and 20 classic playsripts.

/pedant.

Dandy Kong wrote:Eurogamer didn't like it, too little text fitting on the screen, combined with relatively long, unskippable 'turn page' animations.

That review was a joke though, the conclusion seemed to be that it didn't make as good a E-book as an iPhone or dedicated piece of hardware...you know completely missing the point that if you only have access to a DS spending £100s on something else probably isn't a sensible option when you can pick this up for under £20.

Its perfectly fine at what its trying to do, if you have the option of downloading an app for something else you have then it might not be the way to go, but if you only have a DS then its well worth it if you want to read some of these books on it.

LewisD wrote:I'm stuck on the 3rd level.

Can anyone tell me how I beat the Capulet family to progress to the next level?

You have to have Mercutio in your party before you speak to Tybalt.

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