Book lovers and English majors who went on to train early in producing interactive multimedia content and then work as Web developers in Silicon Valley, Travis Alber and Aaron Miller were moving to New York, stopped to visit family here and were at the Esquire Lounge in Champaign when they continued an old conversation.
Electronic books were an interesting idea, the thread went, but there was no real good way to read them, let alone share and talk about them with other readers.
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