Turn your Powerbook (or MacBook) into an eBook reader

or you can use the SMSrotateD (sudden motion sensor rotate) and to save work, just activate the app, spin your ibook, macbook, macbook pro or powerbook and that is all

here you are the link:

http://www.osxbook.com/software/sms/smsrotated/

enjoy your ebooks !!

IMHO, a better way to view PDF files without damaging the egde of your laptop is to use the 'Automatically scroll' function (Shift-Apple-H) in Acrobat. You can control the scroll speed using the up and down arrows.

Like no. 1, I've been doing that since I got my G3 iBook.

Re: a proper bookmarking feature, the new Preview has that done and done decently.

An easy way to do this for most powerbooks (and many recent macs) since Tiger came out: Open system Preferences and hold down OPTION as you select Screens. Now a new dropdown menu appears allowing you to set the entire system rotation of the screen - choices are: Standard, 90 degrees, 180 degrees, or 270 degrees.

I use my 12" iBook all the time to view comic books with FFView:

http://www.feedface.com/projects/ffview.html

It allows rotation and voice commands to turn the pages. It is an incredible program, similar to CDisplay for windows.

I've been using Acrobat Reader to do this forever. Actually, let me rephrase that. I did this forever ago with Acrobat Reader. But it's not really that great and other than a fun thing to show people, I never really use it.

BTW, 4:3 screens (1.33:1) are a lot closer to the right shape for 8.5x11" paper (1.29:1) than widescreens (1.5:1 or 1.6:1) are. I love my new MacBook, but I prefer 4:3 screens for many reasons. I wish they would have gone with a 13" 4:3 screen at 1400x1050--more pixels *and* a better shape. (For me, at least.)

I use ma Powerbook like that all the time.
But, instead of doing stuff to PDFs I use SMSRotateD (http://www.osxbook.com/software/sms/smsrotated/) to have the whole screen rotated.
It's great when you want to see your complete page layout while working in DTP sofware, too...

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"What's a geek to do?"

A geek would buy an old laptop, rip it apart and modify it so it didn't have a keyboard and wire it into a single unit with some kind of minimal interface (touchscreen would be preferable, but those are expensive, so maybe an old iPod clickwheel?) and use a minimimalist version of *nix that boots from a USB drive, with a secondary storage adapter (perhaps an SD reader, perhaps another USB port for a thumbdrive) for the ebooks. It would also be a media player, a web server and a MAME machine.

An ordinary person puts his laptop sideways.

Related question....does anyone know of a decent PDF reader with a useful bookmarking tool? Not the kind of bookmarks in preview.app but just something that can mark where I stopped reading. Unless I'm missing something this feature has really been overlooked by all reader software.

The "ATI Displays" utility allows you to rotate your powerbook display (assuming an ATI card) so you could theoretically use your powerbook in this orientation for more than just viewing PDFs

Download from https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=27