From  destructoid.com (via gamepolitics.com):

If you felt that being a hardcore gamer just isn’t uncool enough these days (hell, everyone has a DS now), then perhaps you’ll be looking to raise  the nerd stakes considerably by acquiring the 100 Classic Book Collection for DS.

As if you couldn’t already guess the central gimmick, the idea is to hold the DS sideways, mimicking a book, and you can flick through pages with the stylus. There are to be search and bookmark functions, and additional literature will be made available in Wi-Fi download form.

Amazon has the full list of titles included, but for an idea of what you’d be getting into, there will be Shakespeare, Dickens, Bronte, Hardy and Austen, as well as less dreary stuff like Arthur Conan Doyle and Jules Verne. 

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From nytimes.com:

“Mr. Haarsma is not the only one using video games to spark an interest in books. Increasingly, authors, teachers, librarians and publishers are embracing this fast-paced, image-laden world in the hope that the games will draw children to reading.

Spurred by arguments that video games also may teach a kind of digital literacy that is becoming as important as proficiency in print, libraries are hosting gaming tournaments, while schools are exploring how to incorporate video games in the classroom. In New York, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is supporting efforts to create a proposed public school that will use principles of game design like instant feedback and graphic imagery to promote learning.”

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