Thread: Not so mobile ereader in 1935
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Old 03-16-2012, 08:07 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by joehunt View Post
LOL! Maybe someone will actually manufacture it. The world needs a hands free ereader
They *were* built.
By the millions.
It is doubtful anybody actually mounted them for home use but they were ubiquitous in industry, universities, and large libraries.
Nowadays they're still in limited use in deep-time archives.
They work a lot like PDFs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microform

https://www.google.com/search?q=micr...w=1366&bih=715
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