Ebooks in you pocket!

Everyone has touched on how great eBooks are before but usually it requires one of two things.

• Sitting at a PC and reading (which is something most people aren't comfortable doing)
  
• Reading via a PDA (which most people don't have)
  

Today I'm going to tell you how to bring your text on the go with you with a device that many more people have. The iPod (or PSP).

What you need

• Source material
• An iPod or PSP
• Text to Jpeg files for PSP (Mirrors 1 2 3)(v2.1.1)

Source material is fairly easy to obtain. I personally prefer a .txt version of a book from somewhere like Project Gutenberg (you can use .Lit as well or PDF but that requires a bit more "massaging")

After you have your source (and Txt2Jpeg)

1. Unzip Txt2Jpg
2. Click File-> "Open Textfile"
3. Locate your .txt
4. Click Edit-> "Easy Config"
5. Change the output size to "320x240" (for iPods)
6. Select you output folder and click start

After that all that's left to do is upload it to your iPod through the file structure (not through iTunes)

There are a few ways to "dress up" the image by using backrounds and changing the font size. My favorite of which is using this backround and changing the font to white 10pt Trebuchet MS.

After which you'll be left with an image that looks like this


Enjoy!

(On a side note, this method also works on cell phones via the Orb service, and can also be used to keep track of phone numbers and address)

And of you need more examples, here's a iPod formatted copy of "Great Brittan And Her Queen" [Which is of course in the public domain]

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