{"id":1171,"date":"2008-12-06T15:04:26","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T15:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nintendodsstockists.co.uk\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2008-12-06T15:04:26","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T15:04:26","slug":"who-needs-a-kindle-when-you-have-a-ds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kissmyconsole.co.uk\/nintendo-ds\/who-needs-a-kindle-when-you-have-a-ds\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Needs A Kindle When You Have A DS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B001LK6XKE?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=dsstockists-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=B001LK6XKE\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51SJGzRJALL._SL500_AA280_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you know what a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000FI73MA?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=dsstockists-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B000FI73MA\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle<\/a> is? \u00a0It&#8217;s an e-book reader from Amazon and it&#8217;s pretty amazing, it&#8217;s completely sold out in the US and costs $359. \u00a0You can also buy a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B001DCJI6Q?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=dsstockists-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=B001DCJI6Q\" target=\"_blank\">Sony E-Book Reader<\/a> which is similar, and will cost around \u00a3200. Or you could just use your DS Lite..<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In collaboration with Harper Collins, Nintendo will release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B001LK6XKE?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=dsstockists-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=B001LK6XKE\" target=\"_blank\">100 Classic Book Collections<\/a> on December 26th, 2008. \u00a0This &#8216;game&#8217; turns your DS into a little library and in this case a library of Classic Literature.\u00a0\u00a0You have all the greats here: \u00a0Jane Austen, Charlotte bronte, Lewis Caroll, Emily Bronte, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde and the list goes on&#8230; (full list on Amazon)<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve had enough of playing Mario, had enough of improving your brain with Brain Training and just need to get into a good book, once again your DS comes to the rescue. \u00a0You have 100 books on this\u00a0cartridge\u00a0which you can read anywhere, you just hold the DS on it&#8217;s side like a book. To turn the pages you turn the stylus. \u00a0 If you&#8217;ve played the Reading Exercise on Brain Training then you&#8217;ll know how it will work.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51NhVTM9MCL._AA280_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"196\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51APPYRTWhL._AA280_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"196\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51b1FEteFpL._AA280_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"196\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For those of us who aren&#8217;t into Shakespeare, the good news is that this is the tip of the iceberg, as there are rumours Nintendo will bring out further e-books on the DS, once again pushing it&#8217;s entertainment value to the limit.<\/p>\n<p>For a\u00a0bibliophile\u00a0like me, this new addition to the DS&#8217;s talents brings me great joy. \u00a0Is there nothing this little contraption can&#8217;t do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know what a Kindle is? \u00a0It&#8217;s an e-book reader from Amazon and it&#8217;s pretty amazing, it&#8217;s completely sold out in the US and costs $359. \u00a0You can also buy a Sony E-Book Reader which is similar, and will cost around \u00a3200. Or you could just use your DS Lite..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kissmyconsole.co.uk\/nintendo-ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kissmyconsole.co.uk\/nintendo-ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kissmyconsole.co.uk\/nintendo-ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kissmyconsole.co.uk\/nintendo-ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kissmyconsole.co.uk\/nintendo-ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kissmyconsole.co.uk\/nintendo-ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kissmyconsole.co.uk\/nintendo-ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kissmyconsole.co.uk\/nintendo-ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kissmyconsole.co.uk\/nintendo-ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}