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Sony PSP to become huge online comic store

 
A new PSP promo video from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe suggests that the company is set to massively improve the comic-book offering on the PlayStation Portable. It's a geek dream we've had for years – thousands of the latest and our favourite comic books released in an online, instantly accessible way on a decent portable reading device. Namely, the PSP. So let's put those incessant rumours of a touchscreen, OLED, all-singing, all-dancing PSP2 to one side for a day or two and applaud Sony for giving its customers what they want. SCEE recently issued this PSP video trailer , promising "instant access to thousands of comics" which you would be able to organise by favourite genre, series, writers and so on. Reading by Auto Flow It also touts a new reading 'mechanic' called Auto-Flow, by which you can flip from panel to the next with ease. In terms of ease-of-use it looks superb, although as with anything introducing a new way of consuming your favourite content – it will all depend on ... (link)

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