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Originally Posted by minspargal
Some of the older ladies at our town book club were real interested in my pocket sony and had never seen an e-reader.
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I was demoing my K2 to an 80 year old lady on Monday and she thought it was great. She seemed to quite like the price as well so hopefully she'll be another convert.
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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
And I work in the city of Groningen, and that's a fairly big city (for Dutch standards, that is) and also has a large student population. And the other day, I went by train to the other side of the country and still didn't even see one reader (only phones...)
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Oh well at least they have phones!
(I may actually have missed off my winky on the last post)
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Originally Posted by Tome Keeper
It was in a case when I dropped it! It's now in a silcone case because a tiny bit of the circuit board is exposed  and I now have the Kindle lighted case and a waterproof pouch 
I used to travel a lot in London especially on buses but I now work elsewhere with teenagers, and let just say occasionally things go missing. |
Perhaps you could just put a sticker on the front indicating the contents are for English literature GCSE - if they're anything like my son then they'd avoid it like the plague - I can only get him to read books if they're very short and contain raunchy bits.