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a book that lost its paper cut but kept the papercut anxiety over battery life.
means a digitized text formatted to be read on a screen instead of printed pages.
from the term traces to the 1990s alongside dedicated readers like the rocket ebook, but the concept started decades earlier with michael hart typing the declaration of independence into a computer in 1971, founding project gutenberg.
first ebook1971, hart typed it manually on a mainframe
drm originspublishers feared piracy more than napster killed music
font tricke ink mimics paper to reduce eye strain
amazon's betkindle 2007 sold out in five and a half hours
for instance
kindle — amazon's 2007 device that made ebooks mainstream overnight
project gutenberg — 60000plus free texts since 1971, the original ebook library
epub format — open standard adopted by apple, kobo, and most non amazon readers