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...“Strangers constantly ask about it,” Michael Hughes, a communications associate at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, said of his iPad, which he uses to read a mix of novels and nonfiction. “It’s almost like having a new baby.” An iPad owner for four months, Mr. Hughes said people were much more likely to approach him now than when he toted a book...
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That's because he's using an
iPad.
Apple is hot right now and nothing from them is hotter than the iPad.
I don't subscribe to this theory either:
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...Not everyone agrees that e-readers have made the people reading them more approachable. In fact, the opposite may be true in some cases. Jenny Block, a Dallas-based writer and sex columnist, said that she thought her Kindle was a stronger pre-emptive rebuff than a book. “I think the Kindle sends the imperative ‘I’m busy, please don’t disturb me’ message when you are traveling on a plane or eating in a restaurant or relaxing at a resort,” she said, adding that the last book she read on her Kindle was “Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality.”
“And that’s a good thing,” she said of the Kindle’s imperative. “It says, ‘I’m used to doing this, don’t pity me.’ ”
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I don't think the Kindle says anything other than "I'm reading a book right now."
It just isn't the recognizable status symbol the iPad has become.
I expect a higher percentage of people ask about the iPad because of the technology versus being asked "what are you reading," about my Kindle.