I just got a pingback about a licensed application coming out before year’s end for reading books on DS. This is promising. The blurb on the Nintendo site suggests that there will be a way to download content to it. Reports claim that the existing content is from Project Gutenberg.
December 12, 2008
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DSLibris is still the bomb. Even if there is downloadadble content, its to the cartridge that Nintendo is going to use for there eBook reader, so space is limited, unlike a flashcart, where now they are able to handle 32gb of space. A coincidence is that all of the eBooks I read on your masterpiece, “dslibris”, come from Project Guttenberg. I am about to finish my DSOrganize database, which allows you to download dslibris compatible eBooks straight to your DS. The only thing that dslibris is missing is a function to highlight text and write notes, then you’ll beat the Amazon Kindle in my opinion.
Comment by Danny Cubero-Matos The Chicago & New York City Kid — December 15, 2008 @ 2:08 am
Oh and if you switch back to the old GUI, it looks more sophistiated than the current beta, in my opinon.
Comment by Danny Csbero-Matos: The Chicago & New York City Kid — December 21, 2008 @ 11:32 pm
The program in question (100 books) is too feature limited. While the library/navigation is pretty, the actual book presentation is lacking.
There is no positive/negative viewing options (text/background), no lamp control and there are just two font choices (huge or ridiculously huge).
Dslibris trumps it in so many areas. The only feature it does better than dslibris is its more robust page navigation.
Comment by Whudjutalkinboutwillis — January 10, 2009 @ 9:39 am
The titles in the Harper-Collins reader may have been released by Project Gutenburg, but these appear to be new scans and more accurate than the ones available off the internet, e.g. the Dickens titles are italicized correctly. Text is also fully justified and hypenated. The book selection won’t please everyone, but is reasonable, given the limitations of the cartridge.
The presentation is slick and impressive, as you would expect from a commercial cartridge. However … the lack of lamp control, the limitations on font size, and the inability to turn OFF the justification make the program uncomfortable to use in practice. I would much rather read these titles on dslibris, although I am envious of the quality of the scans in the Harper-Collins reader.
Comment by Ritchie Dean — January 24, 2009 @ 5:51 am