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: Nintendo
July 02, 2010 | Friday | 13 Comments
From Jina, here’s something that just captures why Japan is silly and awesome at the same time: True story: I have very little experience with video games from my childhood. I never had a Nintendo or anything like that. And when I first saw someone playing Super Mario Brothers, I didn’t ask questions as to what was going on. I figured it out for myself, and decided that there were giant aspirin floating in the air that little Mario needed to grab because smashing bricks with the top of his head gave him a headache. And if Mario didn’t get…
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March 12, 2010 | Friday | 26 Comments
I sit next to a lot of kids on their way to school on the subway, and many of them have a DS or other small gaming device, though I don’t often see them reading unless it’s a text screen from a game. Not so in Japan - “Love Stories for Grown-Ups,” better known around here as “Harlequin romances” are now available for the Nintendo DS in Japan. Can we discuss my jealousy here? Not over the books - the features of the DS Harlequin selection. Check out the features: Love Stories for Grown-Ups enhances the reading experience by offering…
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August 10, 2009 | Monday | 5 Comments
I am one of the lucky ones. My Sony PRS-700 reader has been as cooperative as can be. I took it out of the box, hooked it up to my laptop (which runs Windows XP since my husband refused to upgrade to Vista after seeing what it did to the DoD computers at work), and popped the CD in. Five minutes later I was shopping the Sony bookstore and as soon as my 700 had charged (which only took an hour or two) I downloaded my first ebook with my Harlequin gift certificate. I was off and reading! The battery…
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December 11, 2008 | Thursday | 7 Comments
Want to make sure that your friendly neighborhood video game playing young’un reads some classics? Check out ebook classics for the Nintendo DS. Nintendo has partnered with HarperCollins to create an impressive collection of ebook classics: [Over] 100 titles - from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to Gulliver’s Travels, Pride and Prejudice, A Tale of Two Cities and Treasure Island – ...will be available in a single software package for the Nintendo DS costing around £20. The device, said Nintendo, can be held horizontally, “just like a book”, with pages turned using a stylus. Additional features include an electronic bookmark,…
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