This is a reading-software collection for Nintendo DS that bundled one hundred public-domain works — from Shakespeare to Jane Austen, from Dickens to classic fairy tales — navigable with the stylus as if they were book pages. It isn't a game in the traditional sense, but one of Nintendo's many bets on exploring non-gaming uses for the console, in line with its brain-training apps and utilities.
Today it works more as a historical curiosity than as a serious reader: the DS screen is small and unlit, and any digital e-reader or phone does the job better. But as a period piece, it says something about Nintendo's ambition back then: turning the handheld into a device for everything, not just games.
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