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3) What kind is your notebook? Less weight and noise is better. For reading, you should sacrifice every bit of speed you can for lower power consumption. That is because less power means less heat and might (depending on the device) also mean less fan noise. As a bonus, you can take the cord off which makes it easier to change your side (if on bed).
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I've actually got two laptops, one 17", and one 9". To top it off, the 9" is an Eee 901 - with the SSD. Battery lasts about 7 hours, never gets hot, small and comfortable to tote around, and it can (and thankfully has) survived a few bumps here and there without any issue at all.
At the moment, the 901 would be my reading device of choice. A clever mobileread'er put together some scripts for formatting files to two page per full screen PDF, with suitably large text, link
here for those interested.
The script works perfectly, but I haven't had a chance to actually read anything yet - and I say it "would be" my reading device of choice... but... as soon as my girlfriend saw me pull up a book on the screen, which just happened to be one of her favourites, she stole it from me.
I assume it all works very nicely, as she has since ploughed through several lengthy texts, and has been taking it everywhere.
All these pieces of eReading software seem great, but this script formats perfectly for the 901 screen, and Foxit PDF viewer allows for full screen, "page turn" at the press of a button, and bookmarking without any extraneous or unnecessary features.
So, I think that's my current solution... if I ever get it back from her
