Anime News

Read Manga and Books on Your PSP
Date: 3/29/2005
"The generous 480 x 272 LCD screen isn't just perfect for games, movies, and e-books. ? For a growing number of early PSP adopters, it's also the ideal way to read and store stacks of "manga" (or comic books in Japanese) on the go, in your very pocket. So you're asking yourself, why manga and not the latest American Dark Horse mature flavor of the month? Well, two reasons. First of all, manga rocks. Sure, like anything in life, you've got to filter out the crap -- but when it's good, manga is some of the most powerful visual storytelling we've ever seen. Secondly, and probably more importantly, there's an abundance of "scanslated" (Japanese-release only manga that fan groups scan and translate - hence, scanslation) manga on the Internet for the downloading. "
1UP.com has an article that shows you how to use the image viewing capabilities of your new PSP to read Manga and other books.
Source: DesignTechnica