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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.
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I remember Kodak service techs with a briefcase that contained a microfiche reader and microfiche library. They also carried what looked like a loupe married to a microfiche holder which allowed reading the microfiche without requiring an AC outlet. The microfiche were fun to read since they were written in Kodak's KISL which attempted to remove the ambiguity found in standard English -- all ~1100 words of it.
As for the title of this thread? I suspect that Amazon is in the same situation as Kleenex in English speaking countries -- a trademark is in danger of becoming a generic term. Considering what was done to Bayer after the first world war and their trademark on aspirin was stripped (along with their trademark on a cough suppressant called heroin), I find it hard to find much sympathy for Kleenex or Amazon.