Use your Acer AspireOne as an eBook reader

I’ve had a lot of .pdf files to read recently and thought pretty seriously about buying a Kindle so I could carry them around with me.  But, after a little research, and some thought, it looked like viewing .pdf’s on a Kindle was iffy at best and potentially a PITA if I had to convert all my documents.

I’ve been carrying around my AA1 and doing most of my .pdf reading on it, but have been a little frustrated trying to find the right combination of magnification and page width to get the most legible view. 

Then I had an epiphany:

FoxIt Reader can rotate clockwise, counterclockwise and go fullscreen with just a couple of keystrokes! I’m already using FoxIt so this is a no brainer.

  • CTRL+SHIFT+PLUS is clockwise
  • CTRL+SHIFT+MINUS is counterclockwise
  • F11 makes it fullscreen
  • ESC cancels fullscreen
  • SPACEBAR acts like Page Down

(you can also use the Left & Right arrow keys for Page Up & Down)

Problem solved!

Now I don’t have to spend $360 for yet another single purpose device!

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