My best solution was to buy a "swing-arm" for my monitor. I can adjust the monitor for optimal viewing in whatever position I choose to sit. I usually sit on my futon with the swing-arm clasped to a heavy cart with wheels. The CPU is on the bottom shelf. The swing-arm is made from aluminium tubing; it screws onto the rear of the monitor. An added benefit is that I can turn my monitor 90 degrees and look at pictures vertically. Having used it, I would not want to be without it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_at_the_Well_of_Souls This link is to Jack Chalker/Nathan Brasil. #18 in the 1978 Locus Poll Award for best science fiction

Jack Chalker's series featuring Nathan Brasil is a good read.

I have always loved the adventures of Nathan Brazil in Jack L. Chalker's "Well-World" novels, a series of about six books.