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Portable Electronic Ebook

I have an old laptop lying around, how can i take the screen and make it a book reader?

Well, it's as simple as this: i can't afford an ebook reader (or electronic paper or whatever you want to call it) and i have a nice spare working LCD screen from an old laptop. Is there any way i can take it and use some sort of easy storage (pen drive) and convert it to a portable reader? Of course i don't want anything fancy, just displaying .txt or maybe .doc will do fine.

Thanks for the help.

Short answer NO.

Long one: It may be possible, but you need advanced electronics knowledge, because the link between the screen and motherboard is not VGA.
If you take the motherboard with the screen is quite possible.

Another option: Why you do not use the old laptop as reader. Installing DOS on it will give you possibility to read text files. Or you may use a lightweight Linux distribution (like DSL, Puppy) if you need graphics and possibility to open .doc. If you have enough RAM (256M+) this may be the best option.

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