05-01-2012, 08:50 PM | #61 |
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The first eBook I think was Star Trek: TNG: A Time to Be Born by John Vornholt and I read it using MS Reader on my desktop computer.
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05-01-2012, 10:35 PM | #62 |
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I don't know what the book was but it was read on a Dell Axim.
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05-01-2012, 10:43 PM | #63 |
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My Happy Life by Lydia Millet, on my Sony 505.
Or maybe The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S, Raymond on my HP Jornada. Last edited by no.guru; 05-03-2012 at 11:15 PM. Reason: crs |
05-01-2012, 10:50 PM | #64 |
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05-01-2012, 11:09 PM | #65 |
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I think the first eBook I read was A Tale of Two Cities from Project Gutenberg, on a Dell Inspiron laptop.
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05-02-2012, 11:14 AM | #66 |
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My first e-book was "The Japan that can say no" on an IBM S/36 (do I get a prize for using the least portable e-book-reader?).
It was not really a book I would endorse to others, but I wanted to read it at that point in time and found a LaTEX version of the book on BITNET (one of the predecessors of the WWW) I vaguely remember that it was not really very useful (had to go to the University computer rooms to read it), until I printed it out. Best regards, Andy |
05-02-2012, 12:03 PM | #67 |
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Shape Shifter by Tony Hillerman, in .LIT, with MS Reader on an old, long since dead, iPaq PDA. I read like crazy on that PDA, before moving on to a PRS-500, and also a newer iPaq with more memory, and have hardly bought a paper book (other than gifts and textbooks) since.
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05-02-2012, 01:12 PM | #68 |
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Interesting to see how many of us older folks on here
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05-02-2012, 01:34 PM | #69 |
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Couldn't remember the book if my life depended on it, but it was scifi, at least a dozen years ago, and on the original iteration of the Rocket ebook.
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05-02-2012, 03:02 PM | #70 |
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I think it was The Hacker Crackdown, it was on a handspring visor - a deluxe, obviously
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05-02-2012, 03:28 PM | #71 |
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05-02-2012, 04:04 PM | #72 |
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Some newsletters on my Palm V. I thought about loading a book, but at the time it seemed like a lot of trouble.
Then some novels on my iBook(12" G3 white iBook firewire). I still have it. |
05-02-2012, 10:00 PM | #73 |
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It was The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman on the Kindle 1.
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05-02-2012, 10:59 PM | #74 |
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"Time Travelers Never Die" by Jack McDevitt on my Sony 600.
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05-03-2012, 08:05 AM | #75 |
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Well over 15 years ago I used to read on my PC. There was a site that had public domain PDFs of about 50 classics. I remember Dracula and Little Woman but I read quite a few of them. I also discovered Project Gutenberg a little later and purchased a CD of a few thousand ebooks, still have it. I didn't get a stand alone reader till Kindle 1 but did use a PSP to surf and read now an again. I still have that PSP but have not touched it in over 5 years.
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