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View PDFs on your PSP, iPod and Mobile

Play games, listen to music, watch movies and sail through the Internet. These are just some of the features a PlayStation Portable an iPod and many other devices offer you. But what about that day when you desperately want to view that PDF on your device and all it can do is the things mentioned above?

Though PDF viewing is not that difficult on an iPod touch (you can get legit apps from the App store) but it surely is when it comes to other iPod’s and PSP. With such vibrant and near perfect screens of the iPod’s and PSP’s reading books on the go is a pleasure which you just can’t miss. But you *are* missing it. That is the reason you are reading this post, isn’t it?

What I will tell in this post is How to view a PDF on an iPod or a PSP without Jailbreaking /Hacking/ Modding the device. The only thing that your device requires is that it should be able to view images, no matter what format. But if you already have a PSP or an iPod that is Jailbroke/Hacked/Modded then it’s no use reading this post. Viewing PDF’s on that kind of device is a piece of cake.

The basic idea: What we will do is pretty simple yet ingenious. We will use an application eBook to Images. See? The idea is pretty fantastic!

How to: It’s pretty simple, just download the software to your PC. Open it. It currently supports the following devices.

APPLE:

iPod Classic

iPod Nano 3G

iPod touch (All three versions, 1G, 2G, 3G)

iPhone (All four versions, 1G, 2G, 3G and 3GS)

Creative:

Zen

Zen V

Zen V Plus

Zen Vision W

Zen Vision:M

Sony:

PSP {All three versions, 1000 (Fat), 2000(Slim).3000(Slim light and bright}

Microsoft:

Zune

Sandisk:

Sansa e200 series

Sansa c200 series

Sansa Connect

Sansa View

Besides these devices the images can of course be used anywhere on any other device too because of course at the end of the day these are images (you do need to mind the resolution).  You get the option of the output images being in JPEG, PNG and BMP. It also has a custom mode in which you can manually specify the resolution, quality of images (quality of images are directly proportional to the size of the images) ,font size, background colour, font colour and you can even opt for a custom background image though that will surely up the size of each image.

Conversion is usually very fast. I converted The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, output was around 1700 pages. Quite a large number but still feasible.

After converting, all you have to do is copy these images to the device and view them!

PS: Wondering from where exactly are you supposed to download the software? Just wait for a few days, I’ll upload the software or just Google the name and you’ll find it. The reason I’m not uploading it now is because I currently have a 200MB limited connection out of which I’ve already used 1GB ;)

Feedback as always is quite compulsory especially from fellow Bloggers. :P

UPDATE: I’m not sure but this trick might even work on the APPLE iPad which is releasing on 3rd April.

UPDATE: Download eBook to Images from here.