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Old 05-20-2014, 04:47 AM   #58
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Originally Posted by Rich_D View Post
The first one that I remember was made by Franklin in the late 90's. It was the eBookman. I worked for an office supply retailer and we carried them. At the time, they were out of my price range, so I never purchased one, but did play around with the display model.
I bought one brand new in the packaging via ebay for around $40.00 I think back in the 90's. The batteries only lasted about 4 hrs on a charge as I recall, and it was dot matrix style printing on the screen. Then mobipocket stopped supporting it and newer books couldn't be read on the ebookman after that. Kindle is a lot better tech.
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