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Originally Posted by HarryT
Sure, I had a number of the later Palm devices, but they weren't Palm Pilots, of course. They were forced, as I'm sure you recall, to stop using the "Pilot" name after losing a trademark dispute with a company called Pilot Pens. I had a Palm IIIc (the first one with a colour screen) for years, and must have read hundreds of books on it. As you say, the later models had an SD card slot and hence no effective storage limit. If I recall correctly, I used a book reader called "Peanut Reader", or something like that? I forget the exact name.
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Didn't Peanut Reader have a proprietary format? I vaguely remember something of the sort. Then again, who really cared about standards at that point.
I used Mobipocket on a Palm III and later a Palm V, before switching to an ipaq. For me the draw was the usual reasons - carrying more than one book and the portability. I also discovered large amounts of user scanned books on Usenet and felt perfectly justified in using that resource...especially for books that I owned physical copies of. After all, it's not like there were ecopies available for sale at the time. (I saw the light after ebooks started to be readily available and deleted the collection.)