HarperCollins books on the Nintendo DS!

After months of hard (and somewhat secretive) work, it’s rather exciting that we can finally talk about the imminent release of 100 Classic Book Collection for the DS games console, which we’ve produced in partnership with Nintendo.

From Boxing Day, the millions of Brits lucky enough to own one of Nintendo’s handheld DS machines can now load it up with the complete texts of some 100 classic novels and plays, all carefully plucked from the HarperCollins lists and archives and lovingly crafted into digital facsimile editions…

A Nintendo fan since the ’80s, it’s been huge fun to watch the iconic, colourful covers of our Collins Pocket Classic series…

…get whipped wholesale into the video games world. Scrolling the virtual bookshelf with the DS stylus and touchscreen is a particular joy…

You can see the full list of titles included on the amazon page, but we think we’ve dropped in something for everyone. Treasure Island, Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice and more – it’s been enormous fun to pull out our definitive list of legendary literature. And if the 100 titles still aren’t quite enough, you can also hook you DS up to the web and download some bonus books we’ve been keeping in reserve…

Alongside the stories themselves, we also commissioned brand new introductions to each book and each author, and there are all manner of ways of navigating your digital library - tell the DS what you like and it’ll even make suggestions for you.

There are plenty more features beside – if you’ve a DS yourself (or you know someone else who has) you can hop over now and preorder. Happy Reading!