The REB1200 was one of the first true contenders for the e-book market. It has a nice (for the times) color touchscreen, prescient use of Li-Ion battery for plenty of airplane read time, and external CF memory for holding as many ebooks as your wallet could allow.
Although poor business decisions ultimately killed and revived it several times, it was a good product and offers some interesting hackability. I’ve just noticed that the product line has again been picked up by a third party so as interest and used ebay sales surge, I decided to go dust off some old files and publish the hacks we knew back in the day (almost a decade ago) for that old-school hack feeling. . . . → Read More: Hacking the REB1200… A revival!





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