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Use your netbook as an e-book reader
March 5, 2009 | 10:55 am
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By Paul Biba
Cnet Digital City has an interesting article about using your netbook as an e-book reader. The author isn’t too familiar with e-books, and chooses some odd software to try, but the principle is good.
On my new Asus 1000HE I am getting about 8 hours, or more, of battery life, so this is a do-able thing, unlike earlier netbooks that ran out of juice too soon. One thing I learned from the comments to the article is that on any netbook that uses an Intel graphics chipset you can use Alt+Ctrl+Arrow to rotate the screen in 90 degree increments. I tried it and it works fine on my machine.
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I have an ASUS 100HE and I can’t get the ctl+alt+arrow to work. What’s the secret?
Works fine for me, don’t know what to say. The arrows on my machine are the ones on the page up, page down, home and end keys.
This works not only on netbooks, but on regular notebooks also – checked on Lenovo.
Just one more thing – the link to cnet article seems to be corrupted – one “http://” too much.
fixed
Thanks for the tip on rotating the screen. FBReader has built in rotation, but this tip is useful for software that doesn’t.
My 1000HE hasn’t arrived yet. I ordered the 1000HE specifically for the much longer battery life. The 1000HE will be replacing my Nokia N800 for ebook reading, primarily because I want a larger screen.
I went with a netbook (don’t sue me, Psion) instead of a dedicated ebook reader for several reasons: eInk is ok, but still isn’t good enough for me; with a netbook I get more functionality; with a netbook I get color; dedicated ebook readers are still too expensive.
Dedicated ereaders do have some advantages over a netbook when it comes to just reading. However, at this time, I’m netbooking it.