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This product is 56 pages long and free. Cover, credits, intro and ToC take up 4 pages. I counted 17 pages of adds many of them for other Rite... [Read More]
Evocative City Sites Lorn's Entrepot (Abandoned Warehouse) by Rite Publishing. I was given this product for the purposes of this review. This product is 47 pages long. Cover, Credits, two pages of... [Read More]
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The Plane Below: Secrets of the Elemental Chaos is a 4e D&D product describing some of the different planes in the 4e Cosmology. The book is a typical hard bound book that Wizards of the Coast... [Read More]
Basically, the Korean version of the PSP will have some extras, including apparently an e-book reader.
"Other networked services scheduled for PSP consumers in Korea include on-demand streaming music, on-demand streaming videos (including TV shows), e-learning options, and electronic books. SCEK and KT expect that they will be the first companies to provide a full online experience for the PSP user in any market."
Part of the trouble with PDFs is that you can't use them at a gaming table unless you print it out (which is expensive), have a laptop (also expensive) or a PDA somesuch (also fairly expensive).
Now, if you could use PDFs (or something similar) on a PSP, now that's something. Granted, a PSP won't be cheap (the Koreans have it even worse than in the US, they will be $320 there), but the price will likely come down. Same with the memory sticks.
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A buddy of mine at work bought a play station portable. He was playing the spiderman 2 movie on it. I was surprised at how many pixels are packed onto that little screen. It looks great.
But I don't think the PSP will be the device that does anything significant to PDF RPG gaming, not with more suitable devices like PDAs and tablets out there. The latest Dell Axim is awesome and not much more expensive than the PSP.
I think once tablet slates come down in price in the next few years, we'll see a lot more PDFs at the table. It can be held in portrait mode like a real book, it's easier on the eyes and is a full-featured, pen-enabled computer to boot.
I have enough trouble reading pdfs on a decent monitor. I like to see the whole page at once when I'm reading, and in order to do that with a pdf, you have to shrink it down too small to read the print.
I can't imagine trying to read one on a PSP.
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