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Images on WikiReader, posible?

Due itenacionalization on the device in on the way and is posible to run other apps , another way to improve the software is to be able to include image on it , taking in considreation the difficulty to do it on the limitations of the device 1bit of color (Black/White) and 240x208 pixels resolution, below I have selected a few random image from the Wikipedia using the Random Article special page and I have tried to tranform them to the format understandable to the device (pbm format) in the hypothetical situation it has an already included image viewer than allows to do vertical scroll , so all images has a with of 240 pixels. I think the results are quite promising due the process is the same for all image with same parameters and results are quite good to be the first attempt.
The process was done with GIMP and has been the following:
*Scale mantaining proportions to 240 pixels width
*Aply the comic filter with mask ratio=50 and Black amount=1.00
*Transform image to indexed color mode with palette Black and White (1 bit) Eliminating not used colors from pallet and bluring the color with Floyd-Steinberg using the blur of transparency
*Export to PBR option RAW