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Originally Posted by kacir
Casio Cassiopeia A-11 was my first "real" e-book reader. Before that I was using various obsolete notebooks.
By the time I have got my hands on Cassiopeia it was hopelessly obsolete, and about the only thing you could do with it was reading books. Which is why I got it so cheap.
The reason to begin with reading e-books (first at CRT monitor, later on obsolete notebooks) was that books in English are difficult to get and expensive in my corner of the world. I simply ran out of paper reading material in English.
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Even in Australia it wasn't easy to buy the Cassiopeia - I had to do a lot of hunting. I'd love to be able to use it again (it still works!) but it won't connect up to any modern computer. And if MR readers often get attention on buses when they pull out their Kobos or Kindles - imagine what it was like in 1995! I think people thought I had stepped out of a spaceship.
