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Originally Posted by DaleDe
What were you reading them on 20 years ago? What program were you using? Portable devices for reading eBooks are barely 10 years old.
Dale
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Dedicated bookreaders, yes. Portable devices on which one could read books, certainly not.
The first machine on which I read books was an early British PDA called the "Psion Organiser II", around 1986. See
here. It had a built-in BASIC programming language and people quickly wrote software to allow it to display text files.
A few years later, around 1991, the hugely influential
Psion 3 appeared, which had a clamshell design and a multitasking o/s. There was some
great bookreading software available for that. I still have my Psion 3!