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Old 06-16-2009, 03:55 PM   #2402
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Originally Posted by MaggieScratch View Post
I read my Cybook in public all the time and I get a lot of questions. Some have heard of the concept of an ebook reader, some have seen them, many are curious anyway. I have my spiel down pat.

A conversation I had with a young man (college age, I guess) sitting next to me on the train last week:

Him: Is that a Kindle?

Me: It's an ebook reader, but not a Kindle. It has the same screen, it works pretty much the same way, but it doesn't have wireless download.

Him (nods knowingly): Oh, it's a cheap knockoff.

Me: NOT cheap. NOT a knockoff. Just a different device for the same function.

Him: *loses interest*

Sigh.

But as Bob said, flight attendants almost always ask about it. I think some of them are considering buying an ebook reader--they're so convenient for travel.
You might want to add, This one was on the market way before Amazon invented it.

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