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Originally Posted by GlennD
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.) |
Oh yeah, I remember Peanut reader and the Palm formats, .pdb and .prc. I started with a Franklin ebookman and later picked up a used Palm Pilot. The ebookman had a slightly larger screen than the Palm, but lots more quirks to deal with.
I also remember when Microsoft came out with the .lit format and gave away a book a week for a year to promote the format. I don't remember if those were readable on anything other than a PC.