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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Microfiche was not really portable. The film yes, but the readers of the film, nope. So if you wanted to read the microfiche, you'd have to tote around the reader and have access to a power outlet.
As for SF, one of the best examples was Star Trek TNG with the PADD.
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Portable readers existed.
And still do.
Check the link.
And Star TrekNG PADDs are post-PC.
Try the original series where Rand would bring Kirk clipboards to sign off and Spock's research brought up microfiche stills.
Over time there have been all sorts of attempts to produce portable libraries.
Edison proposed printing books on ultra-thin nickel sheets: 40,000 pages in a two-inch thick binding.
http://blog.seattlepi.com/bookpatrol...le-ipad-combo/