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Originally Posted by HarryT
How very "un-British"  . Talking to strangers is something that people just don't do here. I've never been asked about my book readers by strangers, although I do find that when I go away on holiday (cruises, etc) other people do take an interest in what it is. |
and I have read in lots of cafes in Central London where one would possibly expect to see book readers in the wild - though there is usually a large population of tame Apple laptops glowing away .....
Bizarrely enough the single lone time I have been asked was when I was sitting in Starbucks in Holborn, killing time on the way to the filming of the try out of the new Kindle 3 back in July. I didn't see the person who asked me at the filming though.
And the person who asked wasn't a Brit anyway - hardly anyone is in that area unless you hit the lunchtime rush from the legal offices - as it is close to tourist areas.