The Digital Reader

Harlequin announced yesterday that they have released DS Harlequin Selection: Love Stories for Grown-Ups (literal translation of the Japanese title) in Japan. It’s a collection of 33 stories by some of Harlequin’s best authors. It’s also has  a pretty extensively cataloged library; you can navigate the 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.

I can think of a few better ways to teach kids about the birds and the bees, but you have to give Harlequin points for originality.