Bookr website is located at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bookr/. The latest version is 0.7.1 released on 15/08/2006. This version is for kernel 1.0 and 1.5. But if you have the slim PSP and installed kernel 5.00 M33 you can click here to download the modded version that will work on the latest custom firmware release by Dark Alex.

Installing Bookr is pretty easy. All you have to do is extract the archives you downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/bookr/ or the link that I provided. Then connect your PSP to your computer and copy and paste the extracted Bookr folder from your computer to your memory stick inside the folder call game. You can find it under its parent folder call psp in the root of your memory stick.

Once install you can start the application from XMB. Go to Game -> Memory Stick, then select Bookr from the list. Bookr has a nice interface and easy to understand.

Bookr can read both pdf and text files. If you feel the font is too small for your eyes to read you can zoom it so that it will not hurt your eyes. Besides that you can put your ebook in any folder on your memory stick because Bookr can browser any folder to open an ebook. This is great because you don’t have to put your ebook to any specific folder

Bookr is a great application and it is my favorite application for PSP. I used it to read some of the ebook that I bought online. While it doesn’t have any problem rendering small pdf files but if you open a large pdf files it will crash the application or display an error. This occurred because PSP has a limited memory itself. And other problem that I found while using Bookr is the application crash once in a while. Other than that I do not have any problem using this application and really recommended it other PSP owner who want their PSP to do more that just a tool for playing games.

The installation of the application is pretty easy. Extract the archive you download and then copy the folder named PspKanji and paste it into the directory PSP/GAME/ on your PSP memory stick. Now you can run the program from Game -> Memory Stick.

The kanji flash card is group by grade and the pronunciation is written in hiragana and katakana. The program also has an animation of stroke order for each kanji character. Beside that you can also test your kanji knowledge using the quiz included in the application.

If you want to learn Japanese and have a PSP with custom firmware installed. I really recommended this application.  Not only it cost almost nothing but you can also learn new language (Japanese). Thanks to the author for writing such a useful application.

Installation

Download the software / modules / driver listed below:

Hostcore 1.2 – 2alien.info

USBHostFS_PC Windows version - 2alient.info

PSP Type B Driver – MediaFire | Maxconsole Forums (need registration)

libusb – sourceforge.net

After all the download complete. Create a folder name PSP on your C: drive (you can select a different name and create it on any drive you like). Now extract HostCore_1.2.tar.gz to the folder you just created. It will create a folder name release. Double click the folder and you will see another folder name Hostcore. Connect your PSP to your PC. Once connected you can copy and paste the Hostcore folder into the root of your PSP memory stick.

After that, browse to your seplugins and open the vsh.txt file using Notepad. If the file doesn’t exist, create one yourself. Now copy and paste the following line to your vsh.txt file.

ms0:/HostCore/hostcore.prx

If your vsh.txt is empty, paste it to the first line but if it has other entry then paste it to a new line after the last entry. Save your vsh.txt and exit Notepad.

The module won’t run unless you enable it. So boot your PSP into Recovery Mode by holding the R-button while you switch it on. When you are in the Recovery Mode Main Menu select Plugins. In the next screen (Plugins Menu) enable the hostcore.prx. Once enable exit the Recovery Mode.

When everything is okay. Install the PSP Type B driver to your PC and at the same time extract the usbhostfs_win.zip to the PSP folder you created earlier. The usbhostfs.exe won’t run without libusb0.dll so extract the libusb-win32-device-bin-0.1.12.1.tar.gz to C:PSP directory. You can find the libusb0.dll in the C:PSPlibusb-win32-device-bin-0.1.12.1bin directory. Copy it and paste to C:PSP. Before you start the usbhsotfs make sure you created folder name ISO, MUSIC and VIDEO. ISO folder is a folder where you put your backup ISO or CSO games. While MUSIC and VIDEO is a place where you can put your mp3 songs and mp4 videos respectively.

Now start usbhostfs.exe by double clicking it (but make sure you have copy all your backup ISO games into C:/PSP/ISO). Connect the USB cable to your PC and start your PSP. Once you are in the XMB, press the note button  and select USB mode by pressing left or right directional button.

Windows will detect a new hardware and show the Found New Hardware Wizard, select No, not this time and click Next. On the next screen select Install the software automatically (Recommended) and click Next. Windows will install the required driver. When the driver installation completed click Finish. You will see Connected to device in the Hostcore command prompt.

This shows that you successfully connected your PSP to your PC. Now you can access you game or media on your PC from your PSP. Enjoy and Happy Gaming.