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Choose Your Own Adventure on iPod
If you're of a certain age (which I am), you may fondly remember a little series of books called Choose Your Own Adventure. Right around the time a little game company called Infocom was really cranking out the interactive computer games, which I spent countless hours playing on my Apple ][, CYOA books were a regular staple at my house. Yeah, we'd all skip ahead to make sure we weren't about to wind up as ant food, but the books did a lot to foster reading across the country, long before Harry Potter was a gleam in Rowling's eye.Anyway, Choose Your Own Adventure books are back! Sure, you can buy dead tree versions. But you can also buy iPod versions, which use the iPod's primitive hyperlinking in the Notes. And as astute reader Amy pointed out to us, there's a free sample iPod CYOA book, The Abominable Snowman, on their website. It's neat to see the old series faithfully reproduced, but even better knowing I can carry these around in my pocket (and read them to my kids).
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
John said 11:09AM on 1-19-2007
What? No Third Planet From Altair? No Who Killed Harlow Thromby? Shame!
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Josh said 12:07PM on 1-19-2007
I really thought I would have the first Harlow Thromby comment.
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A wandering adventurer said 2:01PM on 1-19-2007
You are about to be eaten by a lurking grue.
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Bill Logan said 7:35AM on 1-21-2007
Choose Your Own Adventure? Feh! Fighting Fantasy and Lone Wolf books FTW! Looking back, it's strange how an incredibly popular genre of books just totally disappeared.
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