Patent ID: 8847991

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a housing; an electronic display region coupled to the housing, the electronic display region having a rectangular shape with a length and a width, the length being approximately a square root of two (√2) times longer than the width; and a controller configured to: display a first page in the display region when the housing and the display region are oriented in a portrait mode, the first page having a first aspect ratio defined by a first length of the first page divided by a first width of the first page, select, in response to an indication that the housing and the display region have been rotated from the portrait mode to a landscape mode, a second page, the second page being a successive page following the first page within a document; and automatically display, in response to the indication that the housing and the display region have been rotated from the portrait mode to the landscape mode, a reduced version of the first page in a left portion of the electronic display region and the second page in a right portion of the electronic display region, the reduced version of the first page having a second aspect ratio defined by a second length of the reduced version of the first page divided by a second width of the reduced version of the first page, wherein the second length is different from the first length, the second width is different from the first width, the second aspect ratio is substantially equal to the first aspect ratio, and the reduced version of the first page being rotated by ninety degrees (90°) with respect to the first page in the portrait mode.