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In our household my husband is the IT person (by inclination and profession) and I am an admin who does well with using computers. By the end of the day he doesn't want to even look at another computer while I am tired of other people's problems so learning about new gadgets in the quiet of my home office is soothing. Right up until I get frustrated with the super technical side of things - a code monkey as my husband calls it I am not! So I do as much of the research as I can until I have to take my findings to him for the final evaluation before making a purchase. I spend quite a bit of time learning and reading and it is hard work! Right now I'm trying to figure out format conversion (what goes easily from one to another) so that I don't put myself in a bad place and the reader I eventually choose will not work with the books I want to buy that I can't get anywhere else. Most of my women friends look at me like I totally lost my mind this time and ask me to let them know the answer after I have it figured out. With everything else in their lives it simply doesn't rate high enough for the effort required even though they love their mp3 players and the idea of books that don't require dusting or moving a lot of weight greatly appeals to them. While this isn't quite the bleeding edge of technology anymore, it is still close enough to put people off.
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