Electronic document reading devices

A method of displaying one or more pages of a document on an electronic document reading device using a second, computerized electronic device, the method comprising:

• running a document display management program on said second electronic device;
• locating, by using said management program, an application associated with said document;
• automatically invoking opening of said document on said second electronic device using an application associated with said document running on said second electronic device such that said opening of said document is hidden from said user and is triggered by an automatic background synchronisation service;
• using a printer driver for said application to generate data representing said page of said document to be displayed on said electronic document reading device;
• sending said data representing said page to said electronic document reading device for storage for later display;
• and
• receiving, at said second electronic device, annotation data representing user annotations of said displayed image of said page.

A paperless electronic printer system comprising:

• a consumer electronic document reading device including:
• one or more touch sensitive regions for a user to input data, a processor, and non-volatile memory, and programmed to display one or more pages of a document thereon;
• and
• a second, computerized electronic device configured to:
• run a document display management program on said second, computerized electronic device;
• locate, by said document display management program, an application associated with said document;
• automatically invoke, by said document display management program, opening of said document on said second, computerized electronic device using said application associated with said document such that said opening of said document is hidden from said user;
• generate an image of a said page of said document to be displayed on said consumer electronic document reading device, in response to the invoking of said opening, by said document display management program causing said application associated with said document to use an intermediary code module coupled to said application to generate image data representing said image;
• send said image of said page to said consumer electronic document reading device for display on said consumer electronic document reading device;
• wherein said processer of said consumer electronic document reading device is configured to:
• display said image of said page;
• receive data input on said display image by an user on said one or more touch sensitive regions;
• store said input data;
• and
• synchronise said computerized, second electronic device with said consumer electronic document reading device by providing said stored input data to said computerized, second electronic device, wherein said invoking step is triggered by an automatic background synchronisation service to provide image data from said second electronic device to said electronic document reading device and said image data is stored by said electronic document reading device for later display.

A paperless electronic printing system comprising:

• a consumer electronics device including a processor and non-volatile memory and programmed to display one or more pages of a document on and input annotation data representing user annotations on said displayed one or more pages of said document;
• and
• a second, computerized electronic device configured to:
• run a document display management program on said second electronic device;
• locate, by said document display management program, an application associated with said document;
• automatically invoke, by said document display management program, opening of said document on said second electronic device using said application associated with said document such that said opening of said document is hidden from said user and is triggered by an automatic background synchronisation service;
• use a printer driver for said application to generate data representing said page of said document to be displayed on said consumer electronics device;
• send said data representing said page to said consumer electronics device for storage and later display;
• and
• receive annotation data representing user annotations on said displayed page.