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Originally Posted by fjtorres
One reason so many of us like ereaders is because they are literally portable libraries.
It can be amusing to see what attempts to create such a thing looked like without the benefit of modern technologies.
In more recent times, a portable library could be achieved through microfiche technology:
http://worldmicrographics.com/handhe...fiche-readers/
http://worldmicrographics.com/portable-readers/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microform
In fact, in the SF world, quite a few stories featured portable "ebook" readers that were projectors or goggles that used photographic film spools of text. It was the "obvious" evolution in an age without PCs and where microfiche archives were ubiquitous in the science and engineering world.
It was a very different time where Engineers often married their computers.  |
Interesting side note to your quote which didn't show up here. I can tell you that by 1937 many newspapers were on microfilm. I know this because in 1997, I wrote an English paper on the New London School explosion. The librarian pulled out every newspaper microfilm they had for the few days after March 18, 1937. She also got out the old magazines from that time frame.