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I whip mine out almost daily here where I'm surrounded by a thousand engineers with advanced degrees and almost no one ever comments - on my Sony 500, that is. I couldn't care less about that but I was really surprised. I think I overestimated the intellectual curiosity of my colleagues. Then again, they are engineers. I wonder if any of them reads.

EDIT:
Okay, having read that slam of engineers it's clear to me that it was unfair. My semi-educated guess is that on average engineers with advanced degrees read less for pleasure and general curiosity than scientists or nonscientists with advanced degrees. But, of course, that won't be true of all engineers so I should not have made such a sweeping accusation. My apologies.