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Think the E-reader is a modern day marvel? Think again
« on: February 02, 2013, 02:17:10 PM »
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E-readers in their present incarnation may be a relatively new phenomenon, but historians claim a Spanish teacher first came up with the idea more than 60 years ago.

Ángela Ruiz Robles invented her Mechanical Encyclopedia in 1949 - some half a century before the advent of Kindles, Kobos and Nooks.


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/e-reader-modern-day-marvel-article-1.1250136?localLinksEnabled=false

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