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When I was in my local public library, I was asking the librarian there about their (paltry) e-book selection. Her and I were talking for a bit and I was telling her that one of my main decisions to go with an e-book reader was this, "you're sitting there. Reading along. You get involved with the characters. You start feeling emotions towards the characters, the situations, the plot. The story progresses, you get more involved. You may giggle, you may shed a tear, then all of a sudden -- EWWW!!! OH MY GOD!! A BOOGER!!! Not to mention, you KNOW where most people do a lot of their reading... I don't want to be holding somebody else's 'book 'o' farts".
The librarian laughed and told me, "Honey, I've been a librarian for over 35 years. I've known this to be fact since the beginning of my career. I've been waiting for e-books for a LONG time, I was an early adapter to the technology. We're getting more e-books in all of the time."
After that -- FIVE other people that overheard our conversation started asking both of us about e-books and readers (the librarian has a PRS-500, 505, 700, and a couple of Kindles -- according to her).
So, it was kind of a team effort -- but yeah. I'm SURE I've sold a few of 'em!
Then there is the story of my wife... When I purchased mine, she was telling me "oh geez... another one of your gadgets."
She uses it more than I do. I told her to go buy her own! hehe! (and she did)
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