Ebook Reader is a homebrew application that well. Allows you to read ebooks on your 3ds. Next update delayed. I will have it done when its ready. I will continue to support this. Thank you for your patience. Source is available on, if you want to have a look or contribute.
Feel free to suggest things to add. -> What this can do as of the first alpha: • Read a book in a VALID AND COMPLIANT.EPUB format. Convert your ebooks to this format using Make sure its as strict as possible. • Saving bookmarks to an XML format. • Loading bookmarks from XML. Easy to add your own manually if you want.
While other apps only allow reading of text files or html files, with IkuReader you can actually read the popular ePub format, that most ebooks today come in. After the Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader and British-made Cool-er, it was only a matter of time before a company created an eReader for children.
• Status bar to keep track of time / battery. • Read a book in a fixed-width way (will be improved eventually).
• Place books in a folder named 'books' on the root of your SD card. Some books can take a while to load! Please note, large books can take time to load. Use the.cia build if you can. Controls: • (A) = Accept • (X) = Delete book/bookmark • (Start) = Exit • (Select) = Bookmark page • (Up) = Scroll up lists • (Down) = Scroll down lists • (Left) = Previous Page • (Right) = Next Page Screenshots.
Click to expand. Known Issues: As this is the first alpha build that is usable, there are naturally a few issues. - Crashes if book is not formatted correctly.
- Freezes the 3dsx, but crashes the cia, use cia so you know if its just loading not frozen. - Multiple apostrophes e.g. '' instead of ' for quotes. Sometimes you will see ' in spaces. Will be fixed eventually. - Some people may not like the font, but I chose what I thought was the most readable monospaced font.
If you have a better font that is monospaced, please suggest it! Credits: - AlbertoSonic for initial code and graphics. - xerpi for SF2D, SFIL & SFTD - minizip for unzipping - tinyxml2 for xml parsing - BLUnzip for simplified C++ minizip - zlib for zip functions - freetype2 for font manipulation - The people at #cakey - Source Code Pro font: License: THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • [] Hardware Specs Screens: Two separate 3' TFT LCD, resolution of 256 x 192 pixels, dimensions of 62 x 46 mm and 77 mm diagonal (2 7/16' horiz. X 1 13/16' vert. And 3' diagonally), and a dot pitch of 0.24 mm.
The equates to about 105 ppi. The gap between the screens is approximately 21 mm, equivalent to about 92 'hidden' lines. The lowermost display of the Nintendo DS is overlaid with a resistive, which registers pressure from one point on the screen at a time, averaging multiple points of contact if necessary. Some readers can take advantage of the dual screens to display a book like environment. Differences in the DS Lite over the original DS: Brighter, more durable top and bottom LCD screens, with four levels of brightness. The newest product is the DSi which adds two cameras (one inside and one outside) and a sound system (speakers and mic).
It also supports WiFi and a local wireless mode (between DSi units). The screen size has been increased to 3.25-inch diagnonal. An is supported to store the images.
Sound supports only. The DSi provides built in software for images and sound manipulation, but eliminates the 'Game Boy Advance' compatible slot (Slot 2) limiting the types of 'homebrew' hardware that can be used (see below). There is also an announced coming with built in eBook capability. [] The Homebrew route First, you will need a way to run software on your Nintendo DS. The easiest way to do this is with a special cartridge that combines the ability to redirect the DS to a new location in memory on boot, and memory for an operating system and applications in the form of a MicroSD card. This is known as a 'Slot 1' method. (There are also older methods of running homebrew software that use both slots, one for memory, and one for the boot tool, which is located in Slot 2.
These are called 'Slot 2' methods. They will not work on the newer DSi, as it does not have this slot.) There are a lot of these homebrew cartridges available, and most of them are very similar, but with slight differences. These differences mean that you need to match the operating system, which will probably need to be downloaded separately, to the cartridge you purchase. For a reasonably current list of DS homebrew hardware, see. Sources for this hardware constantly change; you will probably need to search the web to find a vendor. You may wish to be cautious and use a method which allows you to check a reputation score for the vendor, e.g.
EBay, as there are also 'fake' cartridges being sold by unscrupulous vendors. Note that Nintendo does not support these devices and has changed the DS firmware in the past to try to disable them (2005). However, a Nintendo representative. Once you have obtained the hardware, check a resource to find the right operating system software to support your hardware. This is sometimes the most difficult part of the process, but has a helpful collection of links and utilities. Many of the cards have very similar names.
You may need to check the card for a web address or other identifying information to help match your card to the operating system. No harm will be done if you try the wrong download; simply reformat the card and try a different download.
Once your homebrew cartridge is working correctly, you are ready to install software and files, which is a very simple process of copying the files to the right location on the MicroSD card. Many computers can read MicroSD cards directly, or you may use an adapter to access the cards using the USB port. For more information, also see this review:.
[] Homebrew (ebook) Apps There are many sources of DS homebrew software and related content, including ebook readers and ebooks. You may install more than one ebook reading application if you choose, which may allow you to read a wider diversity of file formats. An excellent 'shell' for the Nintendo DS is the. Use it for all the books, comics and movies found on website. This website requires free registration to download files. The homebrew software, with an 8pt font, and holding the screen in portrait mode (i.e.
Taller vertically) makes a good reading experience. The Nintendo DS Lite is best suited/more comfortable for portrait mode and even feels like you are holding a book. Offers a nice built-in text reader (landscape only) as well as a web browser capable of surfing the MobileRead.com website (it even displays avatars and smilies and allows you to download to the MicroSD card!). Another excellent ebook reader is by Ray Haleblian. Like ReadMore, it provides portrait mode viewing so the DS is held like a book. It supports both (a very common emerging ebook standard) and xhtml, allowing for books to contain bold, italic and underline styles and other html functions (though not images yet).
(It does not support just reading plain text files, meaning conversion through,, or another tool is necessary.) This application has been verified to work on a Nintendo DSi with the new System 1.4. It can be downloaded at Manga and comic books can also be viewed on the DS using applications such as. This can also be used for other image based documents such as webzines.
Some conversion of files may be required so there is also a free program called PictoDS to convert books for ComicBookDS. The site also has free eBooks available already formatted properly. Note that at the present time there is no eBook reading application for the DS that supports -protected content, such as that sold by Amazon and several other commercial ebook publishers. While there are technical workarounds to this obstacle, the legality of their use is untested. Possibly as ebooks gain popularity a commercial ebook reader will be developed and distributed.
A has been submitted to Lexcycle; Lexcycle has expressed interest, but additional support by potential users would probably encourage its development. This would provide support for the eReader format, used by Fictionwise.com, BooksOnBoard.com, Powells.com, and BarnesandNoble.com. In the meantime, it may be possible to on with. [] Available eBooks With the creation of capable readers for the DS, there are now a great many sources of compatible books, including,,, etc. Commercial vendors like Fictionwise also provide some content in unencrypted ePub format (see their 'multiformat' books).
The Moon Books Projects consist primarily of text files from Project Gutenberg (minus legal preambles). The file for each Author/Category listed contains multiple texts in a.zip. [] Nintendo DSi XL The Nintendo DSi XL handheld console with a 4.2-inch screen (about 93 percent increase in size from the original DSi's 3.25-inch screen) but resolution remains the same—192 by 256 pixels, which are spread over a 4.2-inch screen, rather than a 3.3-inch one. You also get a much-improved side-angle view, so more than one player can see what's going on. The DSi XL is 6.4-by-3.6-by-0.8-inch (HWD) device, and at a little over 11 ounces, it's 20 percent more hefty than the 7.5-ounce DSi and more difficult to put in your pocket.
Another feature that's been enlarged: the two internal speakers, with grilles that have seven apertures each, instead of one. Sound is much more powerful on the DSi XL. A new pen stylus is included as well as the old stylus that fits inside the unit. It is otherwise the same as the DSi. [] Nintendo 3DS The Nintendo 3DS is capable of displaying a 3D image using format.
No 3D glasses are needed. It is also backward compatible with the Nintendo DS and DSi XL in that it will play games designed for these devices in 2D mode. The 3DS includes a 3D camera capability using two cameras. [] Specifications • Size (when closed) 2.9 inches high, 5.3 inches long, 0.8 inches deep.
• Weight Approximately 8 ounces (including battery pack, stylus, SD memory card). • Upper Screen Wide-screen LCD display, enabling 3D view without the need for special glasses. Capable of displaying approximately 16.77 million colors. 3.53 inches display (3.02 inches wide, 1.81 inches high) with 800 x 240 pixel resolution. 400 pixels are allocated to each eye to enable 3D viewing. • Lower Screen LCD with a touch screen capable of displaying 16.77 million colors.
3.02 inches (2.42 inches wide, 1.81 inches high) with 320 x 240 pixel resolution. • Cameras One inner camera and two outer cameras. Resolutions are 640 x 480 for each camera. Lens are single focus and uses the CMOS capture element. The active pixel count is approximately 300,000 pixels.
• Wireless Communication 2.4 GHz. Enabling local wireless communication among multiple Nintendo 3DS systems for game play and StreetPass. Enabling access to the Internet through wireless LAN access points (supports IEEE802.11 b/g with the WPA™/WPA2™ security feature). Recommended distance of wireless communication is within 98.4 feet.
This can be shorter depending on the environmental situation. WPA and WPA2 are marks of the Alliance.