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Well, we got hold of a copy of the '100 classic book collection', so
this review is not just a picking of what everyone else has written
about it from across the internet. At the time of writing, mid Jan
09, the cheapest place we found online to buy this was
HMV, £14.99 with
free delivery - bargain !!
Is it worth the money
when you can get the text of these books on the internet for free - OH
HELL YES !!
WHY ?
Well for starters it's
alot less hassle that trawling the web for freebies, and we want to read
our book whilst we are out and about, skiving at work etc. - not sat in
the house.
What you get with the DS
is the perfect package of your 'old faithful' classic DS handheld
performing new tricks - and with style (you can teach an old dog new
tricks).
We have listed all 100
titles at the bottom of this page for you.
The only problem I had
with it, and it was a little problem was that when you first use it, you have
to go through the tutorial of how to use it. It only takes a few
minutes, but if you have read a half decent review (like this one), then
you will already know what to do (besides the fact that the controls
come so naturally - good one Nintendo) and you will want to get stuck in
straight away - or is it just that man thing of "who needs instructions"
LOL.
So you hold the DS on its side
like a real book, drag the stylus left or right and it turns the
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All the titles sit
neatly next to each other on the virtual book shelf and you scroll
through them until you find the title you want, there is also a
search facility to speed things up too. |
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You can adjust the text size to
suit your needs, and along with the brightness adjustments you can
make on the DS it is easy to find a comfortable combination. |
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You can add bookmarks to pages
when you have finished reading. Then when you return to the
book again, you can carry on from exactly where you left off. |
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There are a number of
background sound effects for you to choose from too. If you fancy the
feeling of sitting on the beach or reading on a summer night, then do
give them a try. The airport one was a bit of a mystery to me, I
preferred to read in silence and so was glad of the option to turn off
these effects.
Another advantage of the
DS as an ebook reader despite it's compact size is the fact that it is
backlit. Meaning that you can sit in bed at night and read a
classic without the annoyance of a bedside lamp.
If you are not sure what
you want to read next, you can take a little quiz and it will recommend
a book for you - how cool is that ??.
Contains the following
100 titles ;
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
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100 Classic titles ebook review