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.
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