The sidebars, like the explanation of widescreen and various resolutions, is informative, not just filler. Rahimzadeh tosses in some light commentary at times, too. This breaks up the guide and offers something different than instruction.
Hacking the PSP covers things away from the internals of the system, too. If you want to build a cheap car stand for your console, the deeply involved guide is more than enough to do so. It may not look pretty, but it seems functional. There is plenty of information on keeping your battery going, even going as far building an external battery pack if your addiction has gone way over the point of no return and you cry if the included battery dies.
The only complaint here isn't against the author, but time. There's zero coverage on newer firmware updates, and while the hundreds of links provided will guide you in the right direction, it's now history to be discussing the 2.0 firmware. The speed of PSP development is simply too fast to keep up with in a book like this.
It's the same problem with the other PSP-based books too. We'll never see a definitive guide until this console is dead and gone. Until that finally happens, we have Hacking the PSP, and aside from the web, it's all we need. O'Reilly's PSP Hacks, while a solid book on its own, pales in comparison to how comprehensive this is.
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