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Originally Posted by pdurrant
An interesting question. I think I'd count my PDAs and Phones (i.e. pre-Ink reading devices) too. I'll have to come back to this when I have time to delve into my archives.
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I've delved. I'm fascinated to discover that I've been reading ebooks on hand-held devices for 20 years now!
My first ereader was a Sony Clié SL 10, back at the start of 2002. It was great for the time - 320x320 greyscale pixels in a 'carry-anywhere' package.
I had several Cliés over the next few years - a greyscale TFT one, and even a colour one.
Then mobile phones finally got big enough screens to read on. I got a Nokia 7710 June 2005. A 640x320 LCD screen, although only 8cm x 4cm!
And then in 2007, E-Ink screens turned up, and a group at Baen's bar decided to try to source an E-Ink-based ebook reader, and eventually supplied a Bookeen CyBook Gen 3, which was my first E-Ink based ebook reader, in early 2008.
I got a Kindle 2 International version from Amazon USA in October 2009.
Since then I've have various incarnations of the 6" Kindle. My current one is the Kindle Voyage. I've felt no need to update so far.