Rumor: Novels on their way to European DSes

Longest gameplay ever.

Of course the box will have "Basic reading ability is needed to read this book" in big yellow letters.

I was just thinking how I need to do more squinting at tiny print on my DS.

Funny, I've been using my PSP for ebooks and audio books since I first got it. Nice of Nintendo to finally get a slice of the action, though I still doubt that the parents paying for these books will be able to convince the children that reading is more fun without graphics. It was not until the advent of voice overs that the 'basic reading ability' has been squashed from the gaming community. As a long time RPG fan I really never understood the difference between the book and the game other than the games having built in play breaks between chapters. When my nephew actually learned to read so he could play Final Fantasy VII, and has since begun writing fan fiction from it. It's always funny to watch the light slowly flicker on for those 'educated' people who have spent their time shunning the gaming community when television without captions is their primary source of information.

"100 books" is like saying "14 word vocabulary" or "10 movies available," it's that little of a drop in a huge pool of what's out there... But it's a start, so I like it. The 'books' are 100 Japanese classic stories, likely older than copyright ownership, so I don't really know how interested I am in it. But hopefully I'm wrong and this one more direction the DS can move into (web browsing, travel guides, language tools, etc.).

The difference in the DS and the Sony/Amazon book readers is that the book readers use a type of display that comes as close to mimicking paper as it can; there's no backlight unless you turn it on. It's also much higher resolution. This is to reduce eyestrain from long usage. So I think if I was gonna go electronic, I'd probably opt for one of those specialized devices, although they're more expensive and don't support gaming.

But paperback books are still pretty affordable compared to all of these devices, especially used. I usually only read one or two at a time (so I personally don't need to carry hundreds in an electronic device) and of course, you don't need batteries to read a book. So in a (rare) smart move, I'll avoid being an early adopter.

Gamers don't read.

How many books can you read before Smash Bros comes out in Europe? How many before FF13?

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I like the sound of this.

Thats pretty cool

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Wow, you guys really did some digging for that one :-P