simple book on laptop

[Bert Freudenberg]

I tried it, looks very nice.

However, I find it impossible to navigate comfortably in textbook  
(portrait-tablet) mode. One set of buttons is on top, the other on  
the bottom. No buttons are in reach of my thumbs, they are awkward to  
reach. The placement is obviously optimized for game mode (landscape- 
tablet) which indeed feels rather nice. But given the importance of  
reading in textbook mode, it might be necessary to rethink this  
placement.

- Bert -

On Jan 24, 2007, at 2:43 , Jim Gettys wrote:

> 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.