Like many other tech toys of the era, these had a much higher adoption and longer lifespan in Japan. The main use case was for dictionaries for Kanji practice f

Like many other tech toys of the era, these had a much higher adoption and longer lifespan in Japan. The main use case was for dictionaries for Kanji practice for students. The original Electronic Book format had many extensions: EB was Japanese-only, EBG added English, EBXA added PCM audio, EBXA-C added Chinese, and finally S-EBXA added color. Looks like they were still selling a S-EBXA model in 2006: https://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/DD/Dd/index.html https://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/DD/Dd/index.html