Screenshot of Bookr for PSP
I have never seen any homebrew application that was more straightforward than Bookr. It’s an application for reading pdf-files with the PSP on the go. To get things running just copy the application files into the root of your application folder via USB, copy the pdf files too, and you’re done!
Bookr supports pdf files and plain text files. You can zoom the contents, flip the pages and browse embedded pictures - everything is rendered very accurate - and it saves bookmarks. Reading eBooks on the PSP was never easier. The app itself has a very nice and functional eye-candy interface, where you can tweak and customize to the most important and usable features. Easy, robust, comfortable and stable. Nothing more, nothing less. Very balaced work. Unfortunatelly they have no website yet. The download is located at Sourceforge.
The application was made by written by Carlos Carrasco Martinez and Edward Choh, they used for the implementation a thing called mupdf.
For some reason I can’t get it to work. I copied the files into the game file on the PSP. When I go to the game-mem stick and click on the bookr icon, I get the message. The game cannot be started the data is corrupted. What am I doing wrong?
Posted on April 17th, 2007 at 01:38Well, it depends. Thre could be a lot of reasons, because you are dealing with homebrewed software here. First of all check your firmware version of the PSP. The most compatible firmware version to homebrew is V1.5. How to downgrade or make homebrew run on other PSP can be found here: http://www.psp-homebrew.eu/faq/ or here http://www.noobz.eu/
Posted on April 17th, 2007 at 12:19You should aim to make this homebrew compatible with custom firmware on psp. anyone who has 1.5 now has custom firmware, it will increase your consumer base
Posted on July 31st, 2007 at 20:32Hello T.
This app isn’t written by me, so I don’t have any influence on the outcome. I don’t know about the most recent PSP firmware, but I suppose, that this firmware does not allow to run homebrew on it.
Posted on August 1st, 2007 at 09:55Tested the PDF application, worked in firmware 3.71M33, nice application!
Posted on March 18th, 2008 at 16:10this application works… but for some reason .pdf files with high def. images doesn’t work on it properly at least on my psp~_~ what should i do?_? any suggestions?_?
Posted on March 28th, 2008 at 16:29I don’t know and haven’t tried, but maybe the pdf-file is too big for the working memory? Why not try to chop the file into small pieced or to get some “downsized” versions of the pdf with less resolution pictures. Hope that helps a little bit.
Posted on March 28th, 2008 at 17:15Damn but it doesn’t work on 4.05.
Posted on August 5th, 2008 at 01:52dark Alex isnt making a 4.05 m33 so i assume you are using official firmware. you need to have custom firmware, from 4.05 the only way you can get it is with a pandora’s battery and magic memory stick. its not hard to make, just youtube it.
Posted on September 26th, 2008 at 11:43um i have 5.00m33 and it works for me because i have a phat psp with 1.5 kernel support
Posted on November 8th, 2008 at 20:22here you can find a software that converts pdf files to jpeg: http://www.handypdf.net . So you can put them into your PSP’s picture folder and view them.
Posted on January 6th, 2009 at 21:06i have version 3.50 and i really want this bookr to work, do i need to downgrade, cuz that means i have to get that lumines game and its a huge hassel, and i dont even use my psp often, in fact i havnt touched it in a year. Do u think its worth downgrading, or should i just leave it and forget bookr?
Posted on January 16th, 2009 at 12:06Well, I am lately a little bit out of touch with PSP homebrew. But I think the decision, whether to downgrade or not, is much like a question, if you want to get deeper into self-written and homebrewed stuff or not. Having an old firmware sometimes creates issues with recent games, that are not able to play and requires upgrade of firmware again.
Posted on January 16th, 2009 at 15:43I have custom M33 5.00 firmware running on my psp slim (that means I dont need the kernel thing right?) and I put bookr in game. It shows up on the memory stick where it should beside game but when I click on it it starts then says “the game could nto be started”. I tryed putting it in a folder named GAME5XX but it did that same thing. Any help?
Posted on February 9th, 2009 at 02:43Does not work in firmware 5.03
Is there an update to Bookr?
Posted on February 12th, 2009 at 01:50@Jade: I don’t think so. Right at the moment, the latest version available is from Aug 15, 2006. I think they are compatible with 1.50 and 3.xx firmware.
But, there should be ways to downgrade, if you are interested. Keep on searching the web!
Posted on February 12th, 2009 at 16:37I’ve just bought my PSP it came w/ firmware 5.03 please HELP !! sniff sniff
Posted on February 15th, 2009 at 16:46i hope bookr will have “find word” function…
Posted on February 27th, 2009 at 16:36Works well on firmware 5.00 M33-6. If I’m reading the app menu correctly, it only has a working memory of 1.3mb. Because of this, it appears that it cannot load larger graphic-intensive PDFs. I tried to launch the Watchmen comic, and it failed. I also tried to open a Visio diagram that I had converted to PDF…same result. Works well for standard text-based PDFs though. I was able to load a 400-page chm file as well. I hope they find a way to boost it’s performance enough to open more graphic-based files. Still a great app!
Posted on March 20th, 2009 at 16:51here’s a link to a modded version of bookr 7.1 that runs on firmware 5.00 m33-4 confirmed. enjoy!
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q8LT0EKJ
Posted on March 22nd, 2009 at 03:06