[owlrigh]

I've started taking an hour lunch break at work with the express purpose of walking down to the nearest park with my ereader to catch up on reading; half hour breaks were barely long enough to chow down my food, fast, before racing off to work.

This morning I did this, curled up beneath a palm on the edge of someone's property, and only got up with reluctance when it was time to go back.

I walked along, still reading, and only noticed at the last moment that I'm about to walk into the back of a van.

"I waiting to see if you'd notice," said the chap who owned the thing, laughing. "I was going to stop you before you actually hit it. Oh, hey, what's that? Is that one of those digital reader things?"

Now, note that I live in Australia, and I've never seen anybody with one of these things to date. One of the reasons I don't sit in the lunchroom and read is that people will come over every few minutes to ask me what it is that I've got, and this grows quickly annoying.

This chap, however, was most keen, and asked for a demonstration of page turns, menu, and asked questions about capacity, glare, and best lighting conditions.

"The Amazon Kindle just got released in Australia," said I; "this one's a Sony, not available here, but there are a few other types you can get if you're interested."

"Bigger than I thought they would be," he said as got into his car.

So hey! Maybe another convert to the ereaders. I didn't think -- I should have given him info about this site! Was late returning, though, and thought about the managers who'd seen me leave and were likely tapping their watches impatiently...