heh, i also love reading and gadgets, i'm quite happy to be able to combine the two as well !
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Originally Posted by cassidym
Contrary to what you may hear, I did not get it, in part, to be able to read the occasional chapter at work without anyone seeing what I was up to. That's my story and I' sticking to it.
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pfff... ok, i beleive you....
i so wish i had had something like this about 15 years ago ; one day, a colleague left a book in the lunch room at work with a note "FREE" so i took it to read. it was one of those books that are intellectually worthless, but you literally
cannot stop reading until you get to the end. some kind of pulp action mystery story, i don't even remember a single detail now but at the time i had to know what happened next.
not helping my willpower was the job i was working on at the time, very tedious proofreading a long and boring document and checking against a list.
i thought i was being so sneaky, i put the book on my desk all the way at the back, against the wall, and the file i was supposed to be checking, in front of it... so i could read the book, but (i thought...) it would look like i was working.
almost at the end of the day i came back to my desk and realized that my boss had a direct view of my sneaky book hiding place from his chair.
i wondered why he was giving me dirty looks all afternoon...
lucky thing it was a fast read and i finished it before the end of the day (and put it back in the lunch room).
if only i had my eb1150 at the time, i probably would have gotten away with it...
