Flirting 101 is the latest title in Ridiculous’ series of books-on-device. Developed in partnership with St. Martin’s Press, Flirting 101 contains the entire text of Michelle Lia Lewis & Andrew Bryant’s book on flirting. Written for both sexes, it covers the ins & outs of how to flirt–in person or via email/SMS.

Flirting 101 is currently in development, and has not yet shipped to customers.

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The Pocket Idiot’s Guide to Getting Girls continues our experiment with providing an entire book inside an application. The application contains the entire contents of this “Idiot’s Guide” book published by Penguin USA. Every one of the 200+ pages are included, along with formatting specific to the Hiptop/Sidekick family of devices. This book, as you’d expect, is definitely written for men looking for women.The splash screen, with the famous Idiot’s Guide logo:

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Dating Boot Camp is something new we’re trying: an entire book contained in an application! We partnered with Alpha Books, a subsidiary of Penguin USA, to bring the book Dating Boot Camp by Lisa Altalida to the Hiptop/Sidekick family of devices. All 270+ pages of the book are contained inside the downloadable application.

Dating Boot Camp’s intended audience is a woman who’s looking for a man. Of course, men certainly might enjoy reading what approaches women might be using….

After the splash screen:

The folder view of chapters lets us quickly navigate anywhere in the book:

Individual sections can be selected within each chapter:

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