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Originally Posted by wayrad
There appears to have been one feature of these "books" that today's device manufacturers would do well to emulate. Amazingly, every single unit shipped with a fitted cover! The anxious wait for accessory manufacturers to get their act together, so familiar to us, was a thing unknown to "book" owners.
Some covers were elaborately ornamented and even made of leather. With proper care, they would last for the lifetime of the device, which was fortunate because there appears to have been no warranty, and aftermarket covers could usually be obtained only by shipping the entire unit to a repair service at the owner's expense.
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Ah, but most of the "books" I have acquired in recent years have been so poorly attached to said cover that individual units (I THINK they're called pages, but I could be mistaken) simply fall out of the "book" and get lost, thereby rendering the "book" totally useless.