Saturday, November 20, 2010

Reading on the Nintendo DS, DSi, DSi-XL

Recently a few reading apps appeared for the DS's:

100 Classic Books, which has a US and a UK version (most books are the same) and "Flip" books.  The presented format is great, you turn pages with your finger by swiping R-L to advance, or L-R for going back - the screen shows the page turning.  The books use both screens, and the device is held "sideways" so both screens read as adjacent pages.  There are treasures to collect in the flip books and some words and phrases have linked definitions.

The quality of the  material is comprehensive (e.g. the Percy Jackson Flip Book contains all five books in the series and the classics include Twain, Austen, Baum, Hugo, Irving, Kipling etc.)

Not a bad series of books, or format, to have handy.

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