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Originally Posted by HarryT
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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What about the Fiske Reading Machine (1922) or does it have to be electronic?
The DynaBook would have been the first electronic reader but it never got past the prototype stage (Toshiba swiped the design specs & the name to produce their first laptops - still use the name)
@owly
Your thinking of the franklin bible (1989)
http://pnylab.com/pny/products/bible/main.html
Or the Microwriter (More a word-processor than reader though)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwriter