Hmmm, ebook readers are supposed to be all the rage these days, so what happens if you happen to live in Japan and are on an extremely tight budget? Well, fret not – Harlequin Enterprises Limited might not be a name common to most of you, but it is a global leader in series romance and one of the world’s leading publishers of women’s fiction, has just announced today that will be offering selected Harlequin books on the Nintendo DS in Japan. Yup, you read that right – love stories in the electronic format will start debuting on your beloved portable gaming console!

DS Harlequin Selection: Love Stories for Grown-Ups (a literal translation of the Japanese title) will comprise of 33 titles by acclaimed Harlequin authors and New York Times bestselling novelists. Out of those, twenty-five of the titles have been previously published, while five more are new ones which will make their debut simultaneously with the launch of DS Harlequin Selection. Apart from that, a trio of titles which were formerly available only as online reads makes the transition.

DS Harlequin Selection: Love Stories for Grown-Ups enhances the reading experience by offering a number of interactive features accessed through easy touch screen operation — a “concierge” that allows you to navigate stories by mood or type of heroine, character correlation charts and lists that are updated along with plot developments, narrative annotations including maps for locations, digital bookmarks, story recaps that bring readers up to where they last left off, a choice of background music, Author introductions and images, polls on hero ranking, review rankings by other users via Wi-Fi connection and more.

Hmmm, now this is definitely an interesting way to make your DS do more than just keep you entertained via games, eh?

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