[Rimbaud]

Well I had an interesting evening with my Reader. I walked over to the local wine bar to sit outside, have a couple glasses of wine and some cheese, and read for awhile. Basically, a nice way to decompress after the work week.

Now, here's the interesting part. The waiter came up to me and we were chatting and he said, "In about three seconds, nonchalantly look over to your left." I did, and the entire table of people closest to the window were staring at me. I asked him what that was about and he said they were all in there trying to guess what the device was that I was looking at!

In the two hours I was there, five people (not from that table) came up to me (separately at different times) to ask what the "thing" was that I was reading from. I explained to each one that it was a Sony Reader and let them hold it, check out the screen, play with the buttons, etc. I felt like a Sony rep or something as I explained how it worked, how you got books, that you could put your own content on it, etc.

Every single person LOVED it. Three of them asked me how much it cost. I expected them to think it was expensive, but when I gave the price the response was interesting. Two of them didn't blink an eye and said that wasn't bad at all. The third said she thought it would cost more than that(!) Of the three that asked about the price, EACH of them said they wanted to buy one and where could they get it.

Anyway, I thought I would share that. I found it a very interesting response from a random (although very small) sampling of people!