There are a lot of good places to get ebooks, like Project Gutenburg, etc, but their formatting is ugly and difficult to read. As far as I can tell, there aren’t any great ebook readers for linux. Also, I have an Eee PC, which has a special size that makes it easy to hold sideways, like a book. PDF readers, like Acrobat, rotate pages and display them fullscreen, which is nice. A lot of eBooks are available in custom pdf format at manybooks.net.
Here’s the secret to combining manybooks.net with your Eee PC 701: Find a good book, and for the download format, select “custom pdf” from the pulldown menu. When you hit “download” you’ll get a bunch of options for customizing the output pdf file. I’ve found that these options work really well for me:
Size: 90 x 152 millimeters
Body Font: Times New Roman
Heading Font: Helvetica
Font size: 13 (I like anyway, 11 is definitely too small)
Spacing: 1.5 lines
Margins: set them all to 4 mm
And download! It’s amazingly fast. Instantaneous on my low-end DSL connection.
