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Yeah. . .well I live in Israel, a country which is both gadget crazy and where e readers are virtually unheard of. You'd think I'd be asked about my Sony Reader constantly. So far, one person asked me about it when I was in the mall and assumed it was an iPad. One waitress at a restaurant commented that it was "so cute" and one person at my writing critique group was interested and then gave a litany of reason why he would "never own one." Other than that, I sit around for an hour reading and eating my meal at a corner table in the mall's food court and get left utterly alone. Even the guards, whom you would think would at least want to know what it is I'm carrying (if for no other reason then to make sure I don't have a bomb) just have a bored look as they pass it on to me on the other side of the metal detector. My iPhone, which pretty much everyone has in this country (like I said, we're gadget crazy and everyone seems to have a touch screen phone and the iPhone has sold like mad) has gotten more notices than my reader, but even that doesn't attract much attention. . .
So yeah, still isolated. Then again, I prefer it that way. I don't want to be interrupted every five seconds while I'm trying to read a book.
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