Super Brontë Sisters

As Dickens himself once wrote, this is both the baddest and the bestest thing ever: eighteen quid buys you one hundred classic works of literature for your DS. Devoting a nearly quarter of the content to Shakespeare’s plays is a bit of a cheat, though. That’s like padding out a collection of scores from great musicals with a bunch of noteless Cole Porter lyrics.

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7 Comments

  1. Tim Almond
    Posted 01Dec08 at 16:12 | Permalink

    What about flashing the DS firmware, installing an e-book reader and then getting the books from Project Gutenberg?

    (not that I’ve tried it).

  2. PooterGeek
    Posted 02Dec08 at 01:21 | Permalink

    If you can hack that in £18’s worth of your billable time, Tim, then you’re a better man than me. PDA owners can install Plucker, like I have, and achieve the same thing without doing any actual work or handing over any actual money.

  3. Kibi
    Posted 02Dec08 at 13:13 | Permalink

    Hang on…am I missing something - you reckon Shakespeare’s no good? Or no good without being on stage?

  4. PooterGeek
    Posted 02Dec08 at 13:28 | Permalink

    Shakespeare is wonderful, but it has to be heard, rather than just read.

  5. Kibi
    Posted 03Dec08 at 17:36 | Permalink

    I’ll probably sound bad now if I say I can hear it in my head when I read.

  6. Lauren
    Posted 04Dec08 at 15:36 | Permalink

    Looks like it won’t be available in the US. Damn. :(

  7. PooterGeek
    Posted 04Dec08 at 23:11 | Permalink

    That’s weird. It surely can’t be for copyright reasons.

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