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View Poll Results: At about what age did you start reading ebooks?
60+ 34 7.02%
55-59 33 6.82%
50-54 49 10.12%
45-49 56 11.57%
40-44 54 11.16%
35-39 75 15.50%
30-34 66 13.64%
25-29 51 10.54%
20-24 39 8.06%
15-19 18 3.72%
less than 15 years old 9 1.86%
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Old 03-18-2008, 01:21 PM   #91
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Heh, ten whole books, eh? That's a lot of memory!
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Old 03-18-2008, 07:24 PM   #92
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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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Old 03-18-2008, 09:08 PM   #94
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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.
Well PG started in 1971 producing eBooks or at least computer text files. I have a CDROM for 1993 called Complete Bookshop with lots of books. It included a PC program to read the books which are basically text files. Certainly text files existed before eBook Readers and Psion had the ability to read eBooks as early as 1994 according to an earlier entry in this thread.

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.

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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.

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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 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.
I have a Palm III still. But they were not available in 1989. The first eBook reader for the Palm came out in about 1997 and started the very successful Palm DOC format. You didn't really want to try and read eBooks on a Palm in memo mode.

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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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Old 03-20-2008, 12:36 PM   #98
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I have a Palm III still. But they were not available in 1989. The first eBook reader for the Palm came out in about 1997 and started the very successful Palm DOC format. You didn't really want to try and read eBooks on a Palm in memo mode.

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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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Old 04-11-2008, 06:27 AM   #99
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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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Old 06-15-2010, 11:12 PM   #100
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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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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.
I also went the clone route, my Palm III was replaced with a Handspring (I liked the increased resolution and the expansion card slot) and it was replaced with a Garmin iQue 3600 which is still a viable option. Nice screen size, nice resolution.

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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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