Topic: Books on DSiWare?

I don't have a DSi personally, but I love to read and a software that would allow you to download and read books as well as play great games would definitely convince me to buy a one. Does anyone else wish you could download books from DSiWare?

Well, you can start with 100 Classic Book Collection - it's not a DSiWare download, but it's a great collection!

Although I like the collection, I wish they would have some sort of service similar to the one Amazon's Kindle offers, the ability to download new books.

Sure, that would be awesome, but 100 books is a good place to start for someone who doesn't have anything

i know its not exactly what you meant, but Brain Age Arts & Letters comes with small parts of books you can read daily.

A service like Kindle, or even just an option to read ebooks you paste from iTunes or some other program from an SD card through your DSi would be bad @$$. I would be really really excited.

I'm sure you meant to make a real contribution to this thread rather than belittle other posts in it - Sean

im not british..... an american dsi wont play british ds games. i would rather have a app that lets you buy books with nintendo points and save them to your sd card

I'm not British either and that's basically what I'm trying to say.

An American DSi will play EU/ AU DS games. It won't play DSiWare or non-existent DSi-exclusive games, but you will be able to import and use 100 classic book collection just fine.

(for the record you're also able to play Japanese DS games).

Wasn't there 20 Classic Books meant to be coming out on dsiware? I used to have a 100 classic books and read three books off it. However, I found reading from conventional books far more comfortable and sold it on. Still, if u don't mind reading off the ds, i'd get it tbh. Ppl may even prefer on the DSi XL? Who knows?

There is to be a release of some Enid Blyton and Artemis Fowl book software for the ds I believe.

I'm pretty sure the DS/DSi is region-free with retail games.

still i would rather have a app like ibooks on the ipad

I couldn't see me pickling my eyeballs reading an entire book on an iPad. It is no where near as comfortable as a book anyway.

I have the artemis fowl flips game and I like it. That would be great if books were sold on dsiware, but for only 200 points

I think books are an awful fit on such devices. You really need that specialized paper-ey screen to be able to read large works on a small screen and not break your eyes. I've tried books on iPhone as well--awful, esp. when compared to reading on a full-sized Kindle.

the dsi is good for books becuase there are 2 screens for reading

Yeah, they could probably create a setup similar to the web browser, along with a bookmark system. They could make it like Flipnote Studio even so you could keep and delete books as you feel like it. Perhaps the could even have a subscription service where you would need to pay like 100 Nintendo Points per month to use the service and perhaps a premium charge in case book publishers don't feel like the subscription charge is good enough for people to read their books. They could even have a program to block people from reading their premium books after their subscription expires.