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EVER since I learned of Project Gutenberg, I’ve been fascinated by the notion of electronic books that you could take anywhere.
Started in 1971—10 years before the IBM PC was introduced—Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org) is the mother of all electronic libraries, featuring public domain books that tens of thousands of volunteers have typed and saved in digital form. Today, the site holds more than 28,000 books, many of them literary classics, that you can download as plain text files for free.
DESPITE early fears that the Internet would hurt reading habits, few bibliophiles have traded in their books for flashing electrons on a screen. In fact, online retailers such as Amazon.com have made books even more widely available anywhere in the world. Now, some Web sites reinforce the love of books by taking it online, where it can be shared by like-minded surfers.
ELECTRONIC books have been around for more than 30 years, but the technology to make them widely available on portable, affordable and ubiquitous devices remains elusive.
The problem is, nobody enjoys reading a long document off a computer screen, and the displays on most mobile phones and handheld computers are just too small to do a good job. Thus the search for the perfect e-book reader—lightweight, energy-efficient, and compact–continues.
