heeheehee !! i sympathise with you ravenne, in france not many people know about ebooks yet either (i'm doing my best to change that, one demo at a time...). i've never had a conversation quite so frustrating as yours though ! usually mine go more like this :
"what is that ?"
"it's a cybook."
(or sometimes : "it's an eb1150." but in that case i just skip directly to the next line, since the chances of anyone knowing about that are zero to negative.)
"a what ?"
"a liseuse, an ebook."
"hey ?"
"it's like an ipod, but for books."
"aaaaaah ! ok. so how does it work ?"
(etc.)
but i'll remember about your game, in case i ever do have a conversation like that.
welcome to outer space with all the other aliens.
