I’ve used my trusty Asus EEE PC for reading e-books up until a few days ago. It was a very good gadget for a reader especially if you use a small app that would turn the screen from landscape to portrait, you then have to turn the book to its side, much like a book. But I had to sell my EEE because of my plans to upgrade to a new model next year.

Nintendo is also planning on tapping the market for e-books with its new partnership with HarperCollins. The company is releasing the 100 Classic Book Collection, a software that includes works from such celebrated authors as Shakespeare, Dickens and Austen. The software turns the DS into a virtual book where you can turn pages by touching the DS screen.

With a price tage of £20 or $30 and initially available in Great Britain, this is very good price point for a very cool use of the DS. I hope that the software will also allow for the addition of new books. Of course, an alternative is to use some of the homebrew e-readers that can be used on the DS.