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View Poll Results: What age group do electronic book readers belong to? | |||
0-15 | 0 | 0% | |
15-20 | 5 | 2.12% | |
20-30 | 32 | 13.56% | |
30-40 | 50 | 21.19% | |
40-50 | 66 | 27.97% | |
50-60 | 57 | 24.15% | |
60+ | 26 | 11.02% | |
Voters: 236. You may not vote on this poll |
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05-05-2011, 12:07 PM | #1 |
Wizard
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Understanding what type of people use electronic book readers
So far I have found that we tend to be more computer savy then the averge person and tend not to read bestsellers because we like to read what we like not what is on a list. What age group do we belong to?
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05-05-2011, 12:10 PM | #2 |
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I'll be curious to see the results of this one.
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05-05-2011, 12:26 PM | #3 |
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Not sure how you want me to vote.. My age or what i *think* is the age group? Confusing poll.
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05-05-2011, 12:29 PM | #4 |
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I'd like to know the result, too. I never saw anyone on MobileRead that is teenager. Almost all of you are 30+.
@ jgaiser: I think it asks about our age. Last edited by maianhvk; 05-05-2011 at 12:32 PM. |
05-05-2011, 12:38 PM | #5 |
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So far I'm the only one who has confessed to 60+.
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05-05-2011, 12:41 PM | #6 |
Can one read too much?
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I see youngsters (20's) reading ebooks on the bus. I suspect they tend to use mobile phones, so it's tougher to always tell if they're reading a book, or a blog. Fellow airplane passengers tend to be older (40+), gender I find evenly divided among all ages.
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05-05-2011, 12:41 PM | #7 |
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05-05-2011, 12:57 PM | #8 | |
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I only saw one Vietnamese reading in a public place once, using her smart phone. In my entire life So far I'm the youngest |
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05-05-2011, 01:01 PM | #9 |
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I think the cost of e-readers and the advertising has appealed to bibliophiles in the 30-40 age range.
However, I voted for my age 20-30. |
05-05-2011, 01:04 PM | #10 |
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This is a strange poll. What is the relevance of this?
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05-05-2011, 01:22 PM | #11 | |
Can one read too much?
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My phone has email capability, but I don't use it, and wouldn't except perhaps for checking email, if I had to. The idea of reading anything longer on the tiny screen seems horrible. I see folks over 40 using them when traveling - under 30's I think read on their mobile phones. |
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05-05-2011, 01:24 PM | #12 |
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I voted my age too, but I think the E-bookers are generally older than me. I know four people who have readers that are sixty plus, and only one who is in the 30's range and a family that shares a reader.
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05-05-2011, 01:26 PM | #13 |
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P.S I think there was a poll like this last year, but there's like 25,000 more members that at that time.
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05-05-2011, 01:34 PM | #14 |
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The title threw me off. Age != type.
I think so far we've established from these recent polls that all respondents use MR and apparently don't mind doing polls. It is fun to see the results, I just don't know that they reflect an accurate picture outside the MR universe. I could be wrong, though, since I don't get out much. I pretty much stay in the MR universe most of the time here lately. And my age group is tied for 1st. Woohoo! Go 30-40s! |
05-05-2011, 02:42 PM | #15 |
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I think we are being type cast, by our age
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