Display Held PDAs and Printed Pages Like Maps?

I often like to use my in-game PDA for API references while I'm programming, but having to right click on it and open up the gui just to take a quick peek at the screen doesn't seem quite right to me.

It would be nice if when held, PDAs acted like maps so you could just look down and see the screen.
Printed pages, too, to make them more useful.

It's helpful if you search before posting suggestions. This is suggested here, and has been discussed a lot in other places like IRC(you wouldn't be able to search that though)