The Shrine

Now THIS will probably be the thing that gets me to buy a DSi XL.

Its release date is June 14th and costs $19.99 Canadian (so probably even cheaper in the US).

Here's the list =)

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 - Around 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


Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey (Wi-Fi Download)
Anne Brontë - Agnes Grey (Wi-Fi Download)
Susan Coolidge - What Katy Did At School (Wi-Fi Download)

Meh. It's like they took a bunch of stuff they didn't have to pay royalities for and converted them.

Also i doubt that will get you to buy the clunky DS XL. I fear that it will suffer from the same thing the iPad is, where the apps just dont look good when its stretched that big.

Flip wrote:Also i doubt that will get you to buy the clunky DS XL. I fear that it will suffer from the same thing the iPad is, where the apps just dont look good when its stretched that big.

So speaks the resident expert on the DS =\

That's pretty cool. I'll have to see how it looks on my regular DSi. I'd consider this. I'm reading Le Mis right now and I'd love to check out other classics that I never read in high school or college.

As far as I know, the screen on the XL is bigger, but it's the same resolution. When I tried the internet browser on my DSi, I thought that font rendering was horrible. Granted, font rendering is a function of software. For example, the text in the latest Mario and Luigi game looks surprisingly good. But it's too large; it's about twice the size of a normal book's font.

I don't think the DS has a future as a book reader. It's possible to make text look decent, but then you can't see much of it. The resolution of the screen is just too low.

Kupek wrote:As far as I know, the screen on the XL is bigger, but it's the same resolution. When I tried the internet browser on my DSi, I thought that font rendering was horrible. Granted, font rendering is a function of software. For example, the text in the latest Mario and Luigi game looks surprisingly good. But it's too large; it's about twice the size of a normal book's font.

I don't think the DS has a future as a book reader. It's possible to make text look decent, but then you can't see much of it. The resolution of the screen is just too low.

Reviews seem to indicate that the font is very clear, and that navigation is very easy as opposed to websites (the difference between a web-based E-book and an E-book app is considerable). The effortlessness of touchscreen scrolling is what draws me to E-books over traditional text methods when the availability is there. 100 books for 20 bucks is a steal if you ask me.

Their picture doesn't make me change my original assessment: in order for the text to look decent, it will be too large to fit a comfortable amount of words on a screen. That shows about 4-7 words per line with 12 lines. The font looks to be about the same size as the font in a small paperback, but the display area is about 1/3 the area of a page in a small paperback.

In short, that looks like a terrible way to read a book.

Kupek wrote:Their picture doesn't make me change my original assessment: in order for the text to look decent, it will be too large to fit a comfortable amount of words on a screen. That shows about 4-7 words per line with 12 lines. The font looks to be about the same size as the font in a small paperback, but the display area is about 1/3 the area of a page in a small paperback.

In short, that looks like a terrible way to read a book.

It's a test for them as I imagine it'll be a big selling point when the DS2 comes out.

Kupek wrote:Their picture doesn't make me change my original assessment: in order for the text to look decent, it will be too large to fit a comfortable amount of words on a screen. That shows about 4-7 words per line with 12 lines. The font looks to be about the same size as the font in a small paperback, but the display area is about 1/3 the area of a page in a small paperback.

In short, that looks like a terrible way to read a book.

I totally disagree with you based on experience reading of iPhone ebooks which display fairly similarly and working VERY well.