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Originally Posted by HarryT
Of course it is. You just choose not to buy such a device, which is entirely different. There are a number of completely open eInk devices on the market, such as the Onyx T68 and Boyue T62.
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I've done some reading about those devices and they don't get very good reviews, they're expensive, and my experience buying from overseas hasn't been good. It can be pretty difficult do deal with a faulty device. A few years ago when I bought some memory cards from Germany back when such things were a couple hundred dollars, one of the two they sent me was defective. They wanted to send me a replacement but with shipping and taxes and so forth I decided to just take the loss. I limit that to cheap overseas things these days.
At one point Amazon did have an ereader called the Afterglow, I forget who made it, and I decided to get one come payday, but they'd dropped it by then and were no longer selling them.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
I very, very much doubt that. The term "electronic book" was coined in the 1960s, and was in common enough usage that it was used without comment or explanation in a computer trade journal article title in 1985.
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You may be right but neither I nor any of the others I was exchanging scanned books with ever used that term. I'm not sure what year we began doing this. Probably after 1985 but I'm not certain.
I was pretty active on BBS systems and Compuserve and a lot of scanned books were traded in both places in those days. We all just called them books. They were always just simple text files. I still have my HP95lx and I probably still have a few of those books.
This was years before the Palm came along, which is where ebooks began to be taken seriously by enough people to let it become a business.
Before that I had a Tandy Zoomer and I can't recall whether I read scanned books on that as well. I may have. I'm just not sure. My serious reading began with the 95lx and a reading program written for it called Vertical Reader. I have no idea if it was the first ereading app but it was the first one I was aware of.
Barry