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Old 05-15-2014, 04:56 AM   #45
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Originally Posted by owly View Post
I remember reading something about that the first dedicated reader was made in the 80's. You could only see one row of text at a time and the only book on it was the bible. Ring any bells?
The first dedicated one I'm aware of was the Sony Data Diskman, which was released in Japan in July 1990. It displayed books on CDs and, when released, had only 20 titles available - all reference works.
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