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No offence taken, MurrayPaul, and none intended on my part. Thanks for your valuable observations. I think, though, that MR is as near as it gets to a significant non-brand-specific forum. I do often visit the Kindle boards, too, because my wee house has over a hundred or titles running with Amazon in paperback and ebook. A fine community there.
But it's interesting to see from nearly 300 MR members who've responded to this poll so far the spread of devices used by those with some ebook-savvy when Kindle has pretty well become a catch-all word in the general psych for an ebook-dedicated device (like hoover for vacuum cleaners or scotch for sticky tape). I've never ever been asked by anyone who spots me reading which device I'm using, but I've lost count of the number of times someone's commented on the lines, "How do you like your Kindle?" I use a Sony, by the way.
With Kindle lodged in the public psych, I think it'll be interesting to see how the numbers in this poll might reflect the Kindle-awareness of first-time ebook-reader buyers over the Christmas period.
Cheers. Neil
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