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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
I suspect the difference is that the book readers are probably not hogging tables at rush times. Not many people can get away with leaving the office for hours at a time to read a book.
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'Tis true. I rarely am reading at rush hour times. And if I saw a place was busy, I wouldn't be hogging a table for hours. I am at my worst on road trips actually, because I have tendinitis in both arms that is aggravated by driving. So I do pick out places to sit, eat, drink, REST, read for an hour or so of recovery before driving on. It's the only way I can get through a long drive. But I don't pick peak times, because who likes reading in the middle of a lot of rush and noise anyway?
And actually, I don't have trouble with a shop putting some rules in place, but I think a better way of doing so would be posting a table time limit of some kind to make people aware of the issue, phrased in a polite, or perhaps even humorous way, rather than a banning of any/all computer like device use. I think that would go over better with customers.
Though I suppose picking on something visible, like a reader or laptop makes it easier for waiters to enforce. Wonder if they also ban cell phone use... those have screens. And plenty of people use them to read, surf the web, text, etc... these days.
Ah well, the thing to do is to be aware and considerate of others around us, then it's less likely we'll see such rules proliferate.