This really has nothing to do with the original question, but it's just an observation I made today when I got my old Franklin eBookMan (which came out in 2001) to finally work again. The eBookMan is still sold by Etaco which also sells the Jetbook. Both it and the Jetbook/Libre use LCD screens, but I have to say, the Jetbook/Libre screen (since they use the same hardware) is literally light-years ahead of that old touch screen. You really have to be outdoors or directly under a light fixture to see the eBookMan screen well, and the backlight doesn't seem to help in low light. To contrast, I can read the Libre in very low light easily. They really have come very far with that reflective LCD technology, I must say.
One thing interesting, though, that I had forgotten, was how much they had packed into the eBookMan, which made it such a cool gadget at the time. You can read ebooks, listen to Audible books, listen to MP3's, play games. It has a dictionary function, a calculator, memo book, date book, address book, voice memo, a stylus, and backlight. Not to mention a touch screen with handwriting recognition. IIRC, it offered more bang-for-the-buck than many of the PDA's of the time.
