Holy cow did I ever generate some furor with my fairly tongue-in-cheek original post.
I hope everyone realizes I'm not *really* upset here hehe, but I do appreciate the great response overall! You are all very right in your take on it all, too. Most of those I've talked to briefly about my 505 have been those that really don't read much these days, either by choice (blasphemy I say!) or from being crazy busy with babies or what have you. I have found a couple people that have had an interesting reaction after having really truly looked at the device. The more they think about it the more intrigued they seem to be. I think it's exactly as we've all said before, in other threads, the whole point of an e-book reading device is that it *isn't* super-freaking-wizbang-kewl and instead disappears to let you enjoy your book. Again, that's the whole point!
I've read maybe 400 or 500 pages on mine so far and it's been very pleasant. I'm thoroughly enjoying my current book and the device is just a nice portal into whatever I happen to be reading. At the end of the day there's not much else I would ask of such a device.
* WARNING: I'm about to make giant sweeping generalizations with little to no basis in fact and entirely fueled by my own personal prejudices. *
One point brought up in this thread is about the general mindset and, let's be honest, intelligence of people who never read by choice. I hired a guy about a year ago that was really motivated and dedicated to whatever we set him to... for a while. Turns out he *never* read a book in his life that wasn't forced on him and even then hadn't really read a book all the way through since hey there are cliff's notes and such out there. Guess what? He turned out to be amazingly immature in a business sense and flaked out after a few months. He's no longer with us. This kind of speaks to my view of the complete non-reading masses and I think my absolute favorite quote was already brought up earlier in this thread by
revfish and it's so good I just have to quote it again for emphasis:
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"'We got ourselves a reader. What are you reading for?' Not what are you reading but what are your reading for? So I don't become a f***ing Waffle House waitress." -Bill Hicks
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* The Emergency Alert System has canceled the giant sweeping generalizations warning. *