Yes, I think book geeks will be the ones who have at least a few tattered old books around, when everybody else has dumped their library. (And the physical books they have will be really representative of what they treasure, rather than simply what has accumulated.)
In a novel I'm writing right now, one character pauses to look at the play list on another's mp3 player and comments on it - but in that scene, the player is hooked up to speakers, so it's kind of "public". Snooping or observing is about it, I guess. Or perhaps noticing that they actually own a Kindle, or that all the icons on their iPhone are book reading apps....
Camille
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