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Originally Posted by cutterjohn42
You still didn't quite go back far enough. Try googling Rocket eReader(plus they a comptetitor whose name escapes me ATM), and both were bought by Gemstar, the sold to Fictionwise IIRC when Gemstar got out of the busines. Plus around 2000 Franklin had a line of three readers called the Franklin eBookman 9XX series(one had 8MB no backlight, 16MB no backlight, and a 16MB with a backlight). IIRC the company that makes(sell?) the ectaco reader still sells the backlit model but it's price is pretty steep.
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 can go back a lot farther still--try 1991 and the Sony Bookman with monochrome screen (no backlight). See photo. It used Sony mini-discs. Unfortunately Sony did what they often do and failed to support it with more than just a very few dozen books. I had one of these clamshell book readers. I then spent over a decade reading on Palm, Clie, and WM PDAs. Not only were the Palm screens small, even the TX, they had very low resolution. I think the Palm TX was 320 x 480 pixels. But it worked for a reader as I read hundreds of books on the Palm TX!