The R4 DS Card And R4 3DS Turn Your Nintendo 3DS Into An Ebook Reader
Posted: Friday, April 22, 2011
by Mark Thompson
If you're a book buff and can't wait to get your hands on the latest books, then this little bit of information is just for you - and your Nintendo 3DS too. Because I am going to let you know how you can read ebooks on your Nintendo 3DS system, free of charge - as in you don't have to buy an ebook reader.
Ebooks seem to have taken the world by storm - the reading world that is. According to Amazon themselves, their ebooks outsell even their hard cover and paperback books. It's no wonder really. The easy of access to instant purchases of the book your want using your ereader definitely have some part to play in all this. And as technology gets faster and better, there are a whole slew of different devices that will let you actually read your books.
The Nintendo 3DS is a pretty powerful hand held system. Even the Nintendo DS and DSi were pretty fast, but the 3DS has taken it to a whole different kind of fast. Not to mention glasses free 3D to boot. With a ds flash card like the R4 DS Card or the R4 3DS, you can actually take your 3ds and turn it into a very capable ebook reader.
You don't have to pay for any fancy software. Just grab yourself the iKuReader, it's a free homebrew ebook reader app, and use it with your 3DS to read ebooks. While there were other ebook readers I could have mentioned, the truth it, ikureader is the only one of the freeware ebook readers that actually supports the ePub format, which, for those of you who buy ebooks and know the formats, is probably the most popular format for digital books. So popular that you can convert kindle books to epub, or just buy the epub versions of the books. And ikureader will take those books and display them beautifully on your Nintendo 3ds console.
Now for the best part. Instead of spending anywhere from $150 - $500 for an ebook reader, your total out of pocket cost is no more than $25.00 for either the R4 DS Card or the R4 3DS for the Nintendo 3DS. Since you already have your hand held system, you won't need to buy an expensive ebook reader. And when you're not in the mood to read, you can play some really great Nintendo DS games too.
Ebooks seem to have taken the world by storm - the reading world that is. According to Amazon themselves, their ebooks outsell even their hard cover and paperback books. It's no wonder really. The easy of access to instant purchases of the book your want using your ereader definitely have some part to play in all this. And as technology gets faster and better, there are a whole slew of different devices that will let you actually read your books.
You don't have to pay for any fancy software. Just grab yourself the iKuReader, it's a free homebrew ebook reader app, and use it with your 3DS to read ebooks. While there were other ebook readers I could have mentioned, the truth it, ikureader is the only one of the freeware ebook readers that actually supports the ePub format, which, for those of you who buy ebooks and know the formats, is probably the most popular format for digital books. So popular that you can convert kindle books to epub, or just buy the epub versions of the books. And ikureader will take those books and display them beautifully on your Nintendo 3ds console.
Now for the best part. Instead of spending anywhere from $150 - $500 for an ebook reader, your total out of pocket cost is no more than $25.00 for either the R4 DS Card or the R4 3DS for the Nintendo 3DS. Since you already have your hand held system, you won't need to buy an expensive ebook reader. And when you're not in the mood to read, you can play some really great Nintendo DS games too.
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