Trouble-free pdf reading on the PSP with Bookr
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.
Comments (7)
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 by Milton Rubin | April 17, 2007 1:38 AM
Well, 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 by Martin Wisniowski | April 17, 2007 12:19 PM
You 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 by T | July 31, 2007 8:32 PM
Hello 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 by Martin Wisniowski | August 1, 2007 9:55 AM
Tested the PDF application, worked in firmware 3.71M33, nice application!
Posted by Andy | March 18, 2008 4:10 PM
this 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 by anonymous... | March 28, 2008 4:29 PM
I 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 by Digital Tools | March 28, 2008 5:15 PM