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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 2017 is the 40th anniversary of the personal computer and the 25th anniversary of the first ereader. A\u00a0quarter century and millions of ebooks later,\u00a0writers and readers, friends and pundits are\u00a0still arguing over whether this is a\u00a0good way to read books.<\/p>\n

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The first prototype ereader\u2014a floppy-disk-driven, six-inch device\u00a0called Incipit\u2014was developed at the University of Milan in the early 1990s. But it wasn\u2019t until 1998 that two ereaders\u2014SoftBook and the Rocket eBook Reader\u2014were introduced, along with websites where ebooks could be downloaded for a fee. The Millennium and the EveryBook came out in \u201999; the Cybook launched in 2001. Who remembers any of these?<\/p>\n

\"Sony<\/a>

Source<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Those first ereaders weren\u2019t very different in principle from Kindles, Kobos, and their ilk except for storage capacity\u00a0(limited to 1,500 pages or about five books) and Internet connectivity, which was so dicey that all but the most intrepid early adopters gave up.<\/p>\n

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The Readies<\/h3>\n

Ereaders may not have been invented until the 1990s, but the idea was articulated just under a century ago in an essay called “The Readies” by Bob Brown, which appeared in the journal transition<\/em>. In 1930, after watching a \u201ctalkie\u201d (movie), he got the idea that books, too, needed a shot in the arm, \u201ca machine that will allow us to keep up with the vast volume of print available today and be optically pleasing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown wasn\u2019t an inventor, so nothing came of his idea, but he was prescient in his prediction that such a machine would allow users to adjust the type size, avoid paper cuts, and save trees.<\/p>\n

Beam the Book Down, Scottie<\/h3>\n
\"Star<\/a>

Source<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

I saw ereaders long before I could buy one. I was a Trekkie. Through the late 1980s and early 1990s, Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> was my eye-candy of choice, a television series that based its plots on the works of Raymond Chandler, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, William Shakespeare, and even Gilgamesh, while showcasing fantasized, twenty-fourth century technology.<\/p>\n

At quiet moments, Captain Jean-Luc Picard would retire to his cabin with a cup of \u201cTea\u2014Earl Grey\u2014hot!\u201d and a book, sometimes an antique twentieth century paper book, but more often a small rectangle that he held before him like a mirror, reading pages that scrolled before his eyes. Magic!<\/p>\n

Riding the Bullet<\/h3>\n
\"Stephen<\/a>

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Despite the advance prep of Star Trek<\/em>, the first ereaders provoked the virulent love-hate reaction that so often\u00a0greets a new technology. Some writers jumped on the bandwagon: Stephen King\u2019s novel Riding the Bullet<\/em>, released in 2000, appeared first as an ebook.<\/p>\n

Within five years, however, the limited memory and download irritations cancelled out the geeky novelty of the reading device. By 2003, ereader manufacturers were going out of business and Barnes & Noble was closing down its ebook sales division.<\/p>\n

\u201cHa!\u201d print-lovers gloated. \u201cA flash in the pan!\u201d<\/p>\n

Their triumph was short-lived. Just one year later, Sony released LIBRI\u00e9, the first ereader to use electronic-ink technology. Finally, words on the screen had almost the same clarity as words printed on paper. In 2007, Amazon introduced the Kindle, connected to Whispernet, their private data storage and retrieval system that held millions of books, an avid reader\u2019s wet dream.<\/p>\n

\"Cartoon<\/a>The Kindle and the ereaders that followed\u2014The Nook (Barnes & Noble), Kobo (Chapters\/Indigo) and the Sony Reader\u2014are all dedicated ereaders. They don\u2019t run email or Facebook or any other distracting applications. They are just books: super-thin, spineless, coverless books that, like paper books, are content to sit patiently on a shelf, waiting to be picked up and flicked open\/on. They exist only to be read.<\/p>\n

When Apple introduced the first iPad tablet in 2010, I was at the sales counter. It was bigger than a cellphone or any dedicated ereader and had a better screen. The iPad came with a built-in app called iBooks, but I could also download Kindle and Overdrive and Kobo. Since then, tablets have proliferated and no wonder: they unchain us from a single mega-retailer monopoly. We can buy stories from iTunes, novels from Amazon, download a nineteenth-century novel from Project Gutenberg, share EPUB files of our self-published ebooks.<\/p>\n

My Kindle languishes on the shelf. I can\u2019t give it away. I\u2019ve tried.<\/p>\n

The Half-Life of Techno-Lust<\/h3>\n

By 2014, fully half of all American adults had an ebook reading device, either an ereader or a tablet. (Forty-five percent had tablets, nineteen percent owned ereaders, some owned both.)<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the thing: although half of American adults owned an ereader, only twenty-eight percent claimed to have read an ebook. Is this just another case of techno-lust? In a few years, will people be tossing their ereaders into the same box in the basement that holds their Game Boy, their Discman, and their eight-track tapes?<\/p>\n

\"reading<\/a>Ereaders, dedicated or not, are almost certainly a transitional technology. We\u2019ll look back on the so-called state-of-the-art digital technology we\u2019re using today and see these ereaders as Model Ts compared to how we\u2019lll be reading in twenty, ten, or even two years.<\/p>\n

Ereaders may be like television: astonishing when it came into my living room in 1956, essential through the moon landings, assassinations, famines, wars, and Dr. Who<\/em>s\u00a0of the \u201960s, \u201970s, \u201980s, \u201990s, and first two decades of the new millennium, then suddenly obsolete, replaced by Internet streaming. Who knew we would abandon that technology\u00a0so completely, with hardly a backward glance?<\/p>\n

Scrolling Backwards<\/h3>\n
\"Roman<\/a>

Source<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

The paper book was invented in the first century CE. Scrolls were so cumbersome, the Romans developed hinged wooden tablets smoothed with wax\u2014an early version of Etch A Sketch\u2014to scratch a few notes. Because the paper book was descended from these erasable tablets, it was dismissed at first as transient, appropriate only for passing thoughts.<\/p>\n

What we forget is that the paper book and the scroll co-existed for several hundred years. The codex slowly gained in popularity until, by 300 CE, the two “display technologies” were equally in use. After that, the scroll gradually fell from favour, disappearing except for religious and ceremonial use by 1000 CE.<\/p>\n

From tablets and scrolls to scrolling tablets, and in between, the codex we call book. Each greeted with suspicion. Each embraced, eventually, as a godsend. Each expected to survive forever. Each of them giving way, inevitably, to the next best thing.<\/p>\n

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Has the way you read\u2014the display technology you use\u2014changed over the last few years?<\/h3>\n

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