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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Well,yes. But even so... in my experience, "avid" has very little to do with screen technology (or where someone does their reading). 
I was an avid reader at 10 when I stopped opening Christmas presents after I came to the first book.
I was an avid reader at 12 when my mother had to make sure the library knew that I needed to be set free from the juvenile section.
I was an avid reader when I first started buying ebooks and reading them on Palms and Windows CE devices. And I was an avid reader when I bought my first Kindle.
I don't believe I stopped being an avid reader when I retired that Kindle and started reading entirely on a tablet. I also don't believe reading at work is a requirement to be an "avid reader." I've never been a read-at-work person in my life. A half-hour just isn't enough time for me to eat AND get any quality reading time in. |
I think you are bringing too much of your personal bias to my anecdotal story of the electronic reading habits of my coworkers. Making a mountain out of a mole hill.
In a group of people that I have worked with over a large number of years (I've been there 16 years), the people that I know to be heavy readers (that is they regularly spend their breaks/lunches reading) that have moved on to e-books tends to predominantly favor e-ink devices (Kindles, specifically).
I do see others who occasionally read on their tablet. However if they have their tablets out they are just as likely to be playing games, checking Facebook or watching Netflix as reading (and I know that because the chairs in the break area are set in circles or squares, so that when walking back to your desk, you see other people's screens).
Make of that what you will. I don't care if you choose to read on a tablet, phone, paper or cereal box. I am only describing the habits of people that I have worked with for an extended amount of time. You didn't like my word choice and seem to assume that I am making some inference that applies to all of humanity.