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E-books on your PSP

Two days after the launch and I'm already looking around to try and squeeze extra functionality on my PSP. Well, I got to thinking, the high contrast screen would be great for e-books. Why not? Might as well start hacking this glorious new piece of electronics ASAP.

So for today's lesson, we'll be using Davinci's Notebook, provided by the wonderful folks over at Project Gutenberg.


And here are some steps, you know, for people that like that sort of thing:

1. Click here to download PaperlessPrinter. It's completely free for non-commercial use. If you want to check out the company, hit up this link. The software does nag you once in awhile to register, but there's definitely no spyware.
   
2. Install it. This adds a new printer called "PaperlessPrinter." This is what you want to use. Ch...ch...check it out:
   
   
3. Open the file that ebook you downloaded. Go file->print then click preferences after you have the PaperlessPrinter selected.
4. Make your shit look like this:
   
5. Now hit OK, and click Print. You'll see a dialog pop up asking you which file type you want. Hit jpeg, of course:
   
6. Click OK on that shit and you'll be brought to the meat of the program. Hit the quality tab to adjust the quality. This adds a bit of blur around the letters, but otherwise is unnoticable. I recommend laying it down around 30, and set the jpeg to greyscale just to keep things clean. I strongly recommend making a seperate folder, as this saves each page as a seperate jpeg.
   
7. Click OK and it'll start hacking away at the files. For a 478 page book, it only took about 4 minutes on my measly 1.2ghz Athlon. This is what you should see:
   
8. Awww yeah. After it crunches away, you'll be left with a whackload of jpegs to plop on your PSP. Here is a picture of the device viewing the book we just made: