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Originally Posted by SUSGOD
I have watched the younger generations play their handheld video games in the dark. Never having seen an e-book reader in person, I simple assumed that I would be able to read the handheld e-book in the car at night while my husband drives or while I’m in bed with the lights off. Now I find out it does not have its own lighting system. Oh dear! Oh dear!  |
You are not the first! You can also check out the threads:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13726
and
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11650
Still, you do have a few options, even assuming you do not want to carry a UMPC or laptop around. If backlighting does not bother you, take a look at the PDAs still on the market (HP and Palm, for instance), for a good choice of features and reading software. For a dedicated reader with built-in lighting, the only one I know of still being sold and supported is the ETI-2. You can find it at eBookwise (
http://www.ebookwise.com/ renamed the eBookwise 1150) and Fillament books (
http://www.filamentbooks.com/), and both companies sell content optimized for it.
There are also older PDAs available used, most of which can access a variety of reading software, or older readers, some of which can still get content from companies like Fictionwise (
http://fictionwise.com).
Enjoy!