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Originally Posted by Jaede
My rant, or question to the masses is this: How often have you been reading on an E-Reader that is not a Kindle, and had some ignorant noob look at it and ask if it was a Kindle? And then when you explain what it is they give you a blank look, a nod, and walk away still convinced what you held in your hands is a Kindle. Maybe it's just me, but each device is shaped so differently that it's relatively easy to tell them apart. I don't know about the rest of the readers out there who have given up paperbacks for E-Ink, but this bothers me every time it happens.
Any thoughts?
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I've had people ask about my "Kindle" before. It doesn't really bother me, though. To me it's a good opportunity to talk about alternative choices and more open products.
It's the same deal when someone looks at my computer and doesn't recognize the OS. They don't recognize it because it's Linux. And that presents an opportunity for me to tell them about it, why it's awesome (continued gaming disadvantages not withstanding) and that it's actually pretty easy to use now. I've converted a lot of friends to Linux that way. Most of them absolutely love it.