kerneljack's diary

Pretty cool idea here about a device that prints books on-demand.

A user browses through books by “author, title, subject matter or publisher.” Once they have made a selection the book text is sent to the machine via satellite and the whole thing is printed out in standard-format softcover in three to five minutes, basically turning the whole book browsing and purchasing process into an ATM transaction.

Firefox on my laptop seemed to be scrolling funny, generally being quite slow when scrolling up or down. The increments seemed to be so small they caused visible ghosting to occur. I was worried this was a problem with the laptop refresh rate until I tried the same page in IE which seems to scroll better and in larger increments. SuperScroll fixed this for me. It allows me to specify the number of lines to scroll by, and this helped me mimick IE’s scrolling behaviour perfectly.