Comments on: Got a PSP as a gift? Now read free e-books on it, including classics by Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Jane Austen, Scott Fitzgerald and other greats

By: pwnzor

pwnzor — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:11:24 +0000

I have flash cards for all of my handheld devices, no way I’m paying full price for my games…

By: Karl

Karl — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:21:51 +0000

Thanks Clay, that’s the kind of information I was looking for.

By: Clay McGovern

Clay McGovern — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:28:47 +0000

I use my Sony PSP to read eBooks all the time. The built-in Web browser makes it easy to read books in HTML or TXT format. In fact, I wrote a blog post about this back in February of 2006 and it’s one of the most popular posts on my blog. Here’s the link:

http://pandora.tcs.tulane.edu/blogs/clay/index.cfm/2006/2/19/Reading-eBooks-on-Your-PSP

There’s no need to convert eBooks into images. You’ll do much better using the browser to read in text formats. If you do that instead of using images, it’s also easy to increase the text size for more comfortable reading.

By: nick

nick — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:57:50 +0000

There are many of these ‘kind’ of devices with reasonable screens, reasonable memory, and reasonable computational ability (PSP, ‘Media Palyer’, cell phones, Nintendo DS). Many of them even have web-browsing capability, for example for Nintendo DS you can browse the web via a wifi hotspot for example.

I don’t really understand (I really don’t understand) why they don’t sell / include eReader programs for them. Why is that?

By: Karl

Karl — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:54:42 +0000

If the PSP had a good ebook reader, I would buy it. I’m not talking about all of this crazy pre-conversion. It would be nice be be able to just browse the web on the PSP, download books and start reading them.

It also be nice if the PSP could read .pdf’s, seeing as I have many papers in that format from school.