{"id":116,"date":"2005-03-28T14:46:55","date_gmt":"2005-03-28T14:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=116"},"modified":"2005-03-28T14:46:55","modified_gmt":"2005-03-28T14:46:55","slug":"reading_on_your_psp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/28\/reading_on_your_psp\/","title":{"rendered":"reading on your PSP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"wholepspgood.jpg\" img style=\"margin:10px;\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/wholepspgood.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"173\" align=\"right\"\/> Not surprisingly, folks have already figured out how to read books on the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.us.playstation.com\/psp.aspx\">Sony PSP<\/a> (PlayStation Portable). The <a href=\"http:\/\/gamefries.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/how-to-get-e-books-on-your-psp.html\">hack<\/a> is pretty basic &#8211; you just turn pages into jpeg images and dump them into the picture folder. The snapshots stack up as a book. <a href=\"http:\/\/packetswitched.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/made-for-psp-ebook-moving-pictures.html\">Packet Switched Press<\/a> has even published a short story &#8211; a sci-fi piece called &#8220;Moving Pictures&#8221; &#8211; formatted specially for the device (you&#8217;re supposed to rotate it 90 degrees to view vertically) (thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/03\/27\/sf_story_formatted_f.html\">Boing Boing<\/a>).<br \/>\nThe PSP marks another step toward an ideal portable media device (see <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/search_for_the.html\">the ideal pod<\/a>), the ebook hack being only one of many tricks to cram in more content options (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/culture\/0,1284,67007,00.html\">Wired article<\/a> for more). The Packet Switch Press story suggests that on the tiny screen, 90 degrees can be all that separates a widescreen movie from an electronic paperback &#8211; there&#8217;s no &#8220;this side up.&#8221; The big problem with the PSP is its proprietary file format, laughably named <i>Universal<\/i> Media Disc (UMD). To watch a movie on your PSP, you have to buy the UMD-formatted edition, even if you already own the DVD. This will ultimately inhibit the development of interesting new works for the tiny screen, clever hacks notwithstanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not surprisingly, folks have already figured out how to read books on the new Sony PSP (PlayStation Portable). The hack is pretty basic &#8211; you just turn pages into jpeg images and dump them into the picture folder. The snapshots stack up as a book. Packet Switched Press has even published a short story &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[725,1187,1849],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-microlit","category-the-ideal-device"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}