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60+ |
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34 | 7.02% |
55-59 |
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33 | 6.82% |
50-54 |
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49 | 10.12% |
45-49 |
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56 | 11.57% |
40-44 |
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54 | 11.16% |
35-39 |
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75 | 15.50% |
30-34 |
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66 | 13.64% |
25-29 |
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51 | 10.54% |
20-24 |
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39 | 8.06% |
15-19 |
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18 | 3.72% |
less than 15 years old |
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9 | 1.86% |
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Heh, ten whole books, eh? That's a lot of memory!
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I was 56 when I got my 1150 two years ago,I couldn't afford to buy a lot of books but then I discovered Project Gutenberg and haven't looked back since.
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Okay okay bad example. Got 'nother one though.
When Aldus Page Maker started to get popular on the Mac and then on the PC, it was used in prepress to help process books faster. They weren't named ebooks then but they were. If my memory serves me right it was just about 1990. Any ebook reading devices then? Asides from computers? Next time I'll Wiki my words first. ![]() |
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Franklin had some bookman readers (The old 2-4 line devices with a cartridge and one book built-in such as a bible.) These date back to the 1989 I believe according to the copyright on the back of one that I own. Dale |
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I recall seeing the Bookman in a window of a store with what I thought was a hefty pricetag back in 1989 or 1990. Plus the display and lack of titles didn't impress me. It wasn't until the device became smaller and lighter than the physical book that I became interested in ebooks. And even then the screen was what sold me on my first Palm.
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I remember buying my first Pilot 5000 (before they were "Palm" anything) in March of '96, the salesman said they had just come out that week. I clearly remember it because it was right after I graduated college and started my first "real" job. I've still got it around here somewhere, cracked screen and all.
![]() '97 sounds about right for a first reading app, I remember something called "PilotDocs" (or something to that effect) that took a text file and chewed it up so that the pieces would fit the size requirements for memo files, but displayed them as a single file. At the time it was eye-opening for me. |
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ITA, I didn't even transition to a Palm clone, an early Sony Clie, until 2003. That's when I felt that readability was good enough for me and available at a price point that I liked.
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I work offshore and started reading ebooks when I wanted to read the second book in a series and was stuck for another week! Now I have my sony reader
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Technically, I haven't started reading e-books yet but I just ordered my first e-book reader. I have been digitizing my paperbook collection though (scanning to PDF without OCR) and hope to be finished by the end of this year (150 so far; 1000, more or less, to go).
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Age 72
I'm 72 and I began reading ebooks on a Palm or maybe a Sharp PDA before that back in the dim past. I forget. I don't count computers and tech manuals I read on them.
I do remember cassett tapes on a Trash-80 and 8-inch floppies that you had to mount and dismount. I did like CP/M and DRDOS and OS/2. I also remember the Xerox Star system. |
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in 2003 I got my first palm 2415 and started to listen to books.
Now I waiting to get "the Book" from Aguen also I feel I am a young but I carry a Medicare Card |
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30 for me when I got my Kindle in spring 2009.
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57 here, it was the Baen free library that got me started on the E-book revolution.
Was reading them on my computer back then. Then I discovered sources for loads of MS Reader books in *.lit format. Well it didn't take me but an hour or 2 to discover there were ways to convert those to a format I could read. Eventually I bought my first device because reading at the computer was just not as comfortable as snuggling into a recliner. Now, I don't think i've read a paper book in 6 months. Thanks in large part to MR I've learned loads and found many great sources for books. Just downloaded 3 of the Baen CD's thanks to a link in a post here at MR. I've got loads of new stuff to read. Including 2 very prolific authors that are new to me. In about an hour of downloading, extracting, organizing and dropping the books onto my SD card I have added at least a years worth of material to my Jetbook reader. Interesting how it goes in cycles, and returns back to where it all started. I suspect I'll make that route a few more times before they turn me into ashes. Speaking of ashes, now that would be a fitting end to all those paper books. Use them as funeral pyres! Burn me with my books when I'm dead, and hand out copies of my collection on DVD to any who want one. Yeah, now that is going out in style. |
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