Genius Sonority had previously released a similar collection of books in Japan, under the title DS Bungaku Zenshuu, in October 2007.

Several of the works included are Othello by William Shakespeare, Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, and The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux.

[10][11] The player is required to hold the DS like a book and can adjust the text size and change background music to listen to while reading.

Prior to the advent of Kindle, The Guardian newspaper reviewed the game as part of the "minority fad" of e-readers, declaring it bland and impersonal but good value for money.

They also found the text difficult to read due to the size of the screen, with unhelpful hyphenations, a low word number per page and distracting animations.