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Originally Posted by cutterjohn42
Plus, while not a dedicated reader ALOT of us used our Palms to reader and got book from the Peanut Press bstore which later was bought out by Palm and became Palm Books plus the reader app.
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I knew that pocket e-reader apps got their early start on the Palm PDA, but it's interesting to hear about the other early dedicated e-readers. Got any links to descriptions?
Update: Here's a link about early e-readers that has some information on the Rocket eBook with a photo. It weighed 22 oz (Kobo Touch 6.5 oz.) and cost $500 in 1999, stored "up to 4000 pages".
Wikipedia has a photo of the Franklin eBookMan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_eBookMan
Looks nice, but the batteries needed changing every few hours of reading, and early versions tended to lose all the contents when changing batteries. Apparently it could run a version of Mobipocket to improve on the built-in software. They stopped producing them in 2002, but the eBookMan bookstore just closed permanently as of April 30, 2011.