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I started reading ebooks well before there were dedicated ebook readers. I bought a sony PRS-500 for a number of reasons. It was the first widely available, specific ebook reader (came out in September 2006). There was a local Sony store, so I was able to walk in, and try it before buying. The software really stunk, but Goyal released libprs500, the predecessor to Calibre, fairly quickly. That made side loading easy. I bought a kindle in late 2007 to get access to the Amazon ebook store. It wasn't that long before the first DRM tools came out and I could do all my reading on the PRS-500 (and later PRS-505).
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