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Originally Posted by eGeezer
Sorry, folks, but I agree with the sentiments expressed by LDBoblo and HaggisMacJedi.
You all sound like a bunch of experienced gamers who trash the new players for wanting to learn the game.
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FWIW, most of us who are snarky about stupid questions *here* are not snarky in person.
"Stupid questions," in my mind, aren't the ones like "is that a Kindle" (I refrain from answering, "yeah, it's the special red edition... it goes faster!") or "how much do the books cost?" (I mostly don't care; I don't buy DRM, and fanfic is free.)
Stupid questions are "do you have to download books for it?"... because what *other* options would there be? "Does it have a printer?" ... anyone who knows the very *basics* of how to operate a printer, should be able to glance at an ebook reader and say, "no printer here."
While I try to be polite in person, I'm not going to fret if someone who asked a stupid question gets embarrassed when they realize that thirty seconds of thought would've answered it for them.
All that said--I like being an ambassador of ebooks; I point people to Mobileread and try to tell them that there's more than the Kindle available. (And I get asked questions just often enough that I'm seriously considering changing my transit reading habits; currently, I usually can't show them what I'm reading to show off the e-ink screen. There's no lurid covers on the fanfic I read, but the text certainly makes up for it.)