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Originally Posted by WillAdams
Things to look up in addition to the Project Gutenberg stuff:
- Living Books (animated kid's story books on CD-ROMs)
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Oh yeah, those were great. They've actually just re-released them under a different brand (although they're just ports of the old ones). The website was one of the first that I ever saw use the new Macromedia Flash technology.
Mine are still sitting here in the drawer across from where I'm sitting. The school where my dad works used to buy them for the classroom and I'd borrow them, but he bought a few for me too. The nice thing was that when you bought them from Random House themselves, they'd have the actual book included aswell.
The original series was great, but the newer ones were more interactive. Could sit there for hours with just one book either way.
I guess if you count those as eBooks, then I've been reading them since 1994, and I was only five then. Haha.
Realistically, the first portable device I used as a reader was a Hewlett-Packard iPAQ my dad bought me in 2005. Mostly just text files.