simple book on laptop

Jim Gettys jg at laptop.org
Tue Jan 23 20:43:27 EST 2007


Cool!

Please add a bug to trac about rotating the direction keys; we didn't
have time to worry about that, but it really needs to get done.
                                  Thanks,
                                       - Jim


On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 16:18 -0800, Brewster Kahle wrote:
> For a talk at the Commonwealth Club in SF on the future of the book, Dan 
> Aronson made a book display for the laptop in tablet mode. We passed it 
> around and a room of people flipped pages on this cool book on this 
> nifty laptop.
> 
> If you have a B1 OLPC and want to do this, then go to book: 
> http://www.archive.org/details/owlandpussycat00leariala
> 
> and read the review that has the way to configure the keycodes so that 
> the direction pad on the tablet map into direction keys and if flips the 
> pages.
> 
> then click on the HTML link on the left hand side.
> 
> It looks really good.  The 200 dpi screen is very nice even on scanned 
> pages.
> 
> Go open books, go open laptop.
> 
> yippie!
> 
> -brewster
> 
> PS.  next we have to make something real work, but it is nice to see 
> simple demos work.
> 
> 
> 
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Jim Gettys
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