Shadowplay
Two points.
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The best I've gotten are comments along the lines of, "huh that's pretty cool," followed by a change of subject - and that's the *best* I've gotten. More often I get things like, "how much did you pay?! why the hell would you do that instead of just picking up a book? Who cares if it holds a whole library, it's not like you need all those at the same time."
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If it makes you feel any better, I have gotten the same type of reaction. no one ever asked me about the reader. I have cornered a few colleagues in the college, they were impressed but ....the price and I am not sure how much they read. Maybe, maybe...when it is available in Waterstone they will be more interested because they would not have to buy it from the USa with zero warranty.
2. Generalisation ...
My wife doesn't read books. She is not interested. As a matter of fact she never was. On the other hand she has 3 degrees and she is a lot more intelegent than me. Why? Reading. In high school she was studying history, geography, biology, English!. Now she is listening to news on radio, or reading all sort of news on the Internet. Me? I read fiction..I read it in a high school instead of studying history, English!, biology, geography...I read it now instead of IT books that I must read and I cannot keep up with any civilised conversation about politics, history or anything like that because I have no knowledge of the subjects. She can do it although she is not book reading fun...