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Old 03-28-2009, 05:51 PM   #34
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I'm on week 2 with the MSI Wind U100, and I'm quite happy with it so far. I was thinking I would want to get a bigger battery right off, but even with a little traveling I haven't had to worry about the battery life yet, so I might stick with the 3-cell.

The one thing I haven't been able to get out of it is a decent ebook experience--I never did ebooks before the Wind, and I thought this would be the perfect chance to try them out, but the software choices I've seen so far are atrocious.

CDisplay on the Wind has totally opened up comic books for me again, and proven that there are no issues with the screen and form factor for reading. Isn't there something similar for ebooks? All I'm looking for are:
1) Fullscreen display with "fit" options, rotation, and no GUI
2) Preserve indents and spacing from the original text
3) Do this for all common formats
4) Nothing else: don't bog it down

Has anyone found a good fit for ebooks on a netbook? I'm still working my way through apps, but it's frustrating so far.
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