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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
I don't think you've asked before, but Yes: I find it's absolutely the only way I can read MobiPocket and MS Reader books on the TP2 (if you know of a way to do it without the keyboard, let me know... I haven't found it). Which is okay as far as it goes, but I don't necessarily find it more comfortable than reading with the keyboard closed... and the keyboard orientation only works for my right hand, thumb on the arrows. The orientation just doesn't work for my left hand... very awkward... so, if my right hand gets tired, I'm SOL.
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If you're willing to tinker a little, left-handed is possible as well. As to book form, I generally only prefer it while lying down because it's easier to hold the device upside down. While sitting, I use various other methods and even sometimes swipe to turn pages.
Rhodium keyboard controller is a powerful button remapper, and it contains the ability to remap keys with context sensitivity. So I can switch to my left hand, manually flip the screen, and my thumb happens to rest on the C and F buttons, which I have set to up and down in my ereading program (freda) only, and they are C and F as normal everywhere else. I actually spend as much time reading left-handed as I do right. The same program could probably help you read with the keyboard closed -- you'd just do a context remap for the home and back keys, so that in mobipocket they were up and down.
I've also moved over to an epub reader entirely. It was a big time investment for me since my fairly large library was in another format, but I'm happy with the decision both for today and the future as epub seems to be the predominant format readerware is being made for nowadays.