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Behold the dPad!

So I got the chance to play with an iPad for a few minutes, nothing really exiting to speak of other than it made a hell of a good ebook reader.  A $500 ebook reader is a little much so I thought maybe I can make something work for less.  This is an old Dell D600 that I’ve had laying around without a purpose.  I tore it apart this morning to see how difficult it would be to turn the screen around.  As it turns out, it’s easy as pie!  The hinges are mostly symmetric and the one and only cable connecting the panel to the board it long enough to be turned around.  So about 10 minutes of screw turning and some screen rotation in software and I now have one damn good ebook reader.  It it heavy and I don’t think I’ll ever take it out of the house but the price is definitely right.