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Originally Posted by bashfulbanshee
I'm in Vancouver, Canada. I'm usually the only person on the bus with an e-reader. I have seen people with ipads and other e-readers though, but only once in a while. So maybe 1 in every 30 people I see reading a book. There tends to be more e-readers and ipads with the white-collar work crowd and the university crowd, so it depends on when you take the bus.
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Originally Posted by corona
I'm a putatively mature university student, so I'm always on public transit with the younger people. They all have at least two devices, which they are fiddling with constantly.
Oh, and in my city, Vancouver, I very rarely see another person with an e-reader. I think I've seen perhaps half a dozen in a year and a half of incessant public transit travel.
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Originally Posted by bashfulbanshee
I see more ipads than e-readers. There's quite a bit of ipads with the white collar commuters to Vancouver and people travelling from affluent areas. More ipads on skytrains (especially the Canada line) than on buses. And I've never seen an ipad on the buses that pass by Main @ East Hastings :P
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There used to be only about 2 MobileRead members posting regularly from Vancouver. Now there are more than a dozen.
I've seen a few ebook readers on the Expo line, but I couldn't recognize all the makes. Most riders have earbuds on and the volume turned up so loud that I can hear their music selection from 20 feet away.
If you take the B-Line bus down Broadway to UBC, every other student seems to have an IPad. Having an APple store on campus may be the source.