No, no, we don’t mean a notebook or tablet, we mean using your Eee PC 701 as an actual book. An Italian Eee PC enthusiast has created a package, called “eeeBookMode”, that will allow you to turn your Eee PC into an actual ebook reader appliance.
The tutorial (in Italian) explains how to get it all going. The first script rotates the little LCD screen and touchpad so you can actually treat the Eee PC as a book, while the second script reverses the first and sets your Eee PC back to normal.
The tutorial further goes into detail revealing how to set up CDisplay for the comic fans and Foxit Reader to respond to the trackpad.
Quite an interesting and fun way to expand on the list of great things you can already do with your Eee PC, as well as giving new life to the original Asus Eee PC 701.
UPDATE: The English translation is available here.
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Dude, can we get that shit translated into English? Please? It looks awesome. Seriously.
This is the answer to your request:
http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=n&u=http%3A%2F%2Feldino.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F05%2F04%2Fit-io-il-mio-asus-eeepc-701-4g-nero-netbook-episodio-5-come-trasformare-leeepc-in-un-ebook-reader-la-guida-completa%2F&sl=it&tl=en&history_state0=
Hallo,
es ist sicherlich sehr schwierig, die Funktionalität einer Netbooktasche mit der gewünschten Ästhetik in Einklang zu bringen. Die Business-Frauen sind ja bekanntlich auf dem Vormarsch und ich habe endlich, passend dazu, super elegante Notebooktaschen beim suchen nach neuen Trends gefunden. Die sind wirklich mal was außergewöhnliches und nicht so langweilig, wie man sie sonst kennt.
Natürlich kann sich zu einer eher einfacheren, funktionalen und gut gepolsterten Notebook Tasche entscheiden, aber wenn man zu diesen Kriterien noch einen besonderen Style und ein schickes Design bekommt, macht es doch Spaß, sein Notebook als ständigen Begleiter dabei zuhaben.
LG Anna
Hi guys, thx very much for linking my tutorial and my little scripts
More interesting uses of eeepc have to come 
Regards,
eldino
eee Rotate also turns your screen and touchpad:
http://asus-eee-pc-web.blogspot.com/2008/02/rotate-your-asus-eee-pc.html
You can do this out-of-the box with XP on the 701. All you do is right-click on the desktop, go to graphics options, then click rotation and choose the “270 degrees” option. Easy as pie.
What’s the big deal? I have been doing just this with FBReader from the beginning. Ah, it’s about Windows…
A couple of comments:
1) It would be really useful for ALL blog postings here which are operating system specific to have such a reference to indicate this fact. If I’d known this one was only for XP, I probably wouldn’t have bothered reading any further.
2) I use Linux and my solution to what this post shows is to use FBReader http://www.fbreader.org/ (for Linux, XP, Vista etc) for ebooks and the like, Firefox for web-based info and a PDF file reader for acrobat documents (evince or kpdf). It requires 3 readers, but most computers would have Firefox and a PDF reader available anyway…
In any case, I use my eeePC 701 to read many different electronic media using FBReader which is very easy to use and the netbook is light enough to hold like a book as Eldino shows on his own site.
Rob.
Hi Rob,
I’ll take your suggestions under consideration regarding operating system specific postings.
Thanks.
[QUOTE]You can do this out-of-the box with XP on the 701. All you do is right-click on the desktop, go to graphics options, then click rotation and choose the “270 degrees” option. Easy as pie.[/QUOTE]
Yes, but with my eeeBookMode thing u can do it with just 1 click on an icon (and another click on another icon to restore). 1 click = rotate screen and trackpad, 1 click = restore. Easier
Nice!
I’ll try with my father’s eee900… should it work? I’ll come back if I can do it.
Thanks at all!
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