keep getting interrupted while reading

[HedgeMage]

Originally Posted by mjhudston

There is a marked difference between being left alone, and being on your own, and I have to say, when I took paperback books into hotel bars etc, I was very rarely interrupted, because people could see exactly what your doing but they seem to think just because it's something different, they have to disturb you.

Being a reasonably attractive female, if I'm alone in a hotel bar, I'm constantly interrupted no matter what I'm doing. It's pick-up central, even in higher-end hotels, and especially at conferences. I avoid the bar for that reason.

Be glad you only get interrupted when you have an ereader in hand!

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Originally Posted by HedgeMage

Being a reasonably attractive female, if I'm alone in a hotel bar, I'm constantly interrupted no matter what I'm doing. It's pick-up central, even in higher-end hotels, and especially at conferences. I avoid the bar for that reason.

Be glad you only get interrupted when you have an ereader in hand!

It could be worse. You could be a lesbian and have guys constantly interrupting you!

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald

It could be worse. You could be a lesbian and have guys constantly interrupting you!

or you could be straight and constantly have lesbians interrupting you!

[foreverjuly]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

or you could be straight and constantly have lesbians interrupting you!

or you could be from Africa and have penguins constantly interrupting you.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by HarryT

That would drive me up the wall. It's a cultural thing - it would never happen here in the UK; talking to strangers is something that people just don't do here.

I have to disagree with that.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by patrickt

I don't get disturbed often but it only irritates me if they say, "Ohhhh, is that an IPad?"

It used to infuriate me when my wife would stand, sigh heavily, and say, "Don't you want to do anything?"

"I'm doing something. Something I rather enjoy. I'm reading a book."

"Well, wouldn't you rather go shopping at the mall?"

Yeah, right.

Time to trade in your wife for a new model that doesn't like to shop.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

Now....explain how the Kindle isn't a "real book reader?"


Please spare us the "you're locked into buying books from amazon" speech.

What I do when someone asks "Is that a Kindle?" I answer. "No, it's not. It's actually better. It's a Sony Reader." I don't do it to dis the Kindle. I do is to dis the fact that all the press seems to know is the Kindle. So maybe it would get the person to actually go out and look at a reader that's not a Kindle and get to know that there are other readers out there besides Amazon.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

coffee houses are becoming the "go to" places in the northwest for "playdates" during rainy season. kinda takes away from my office away from my office sort of mentality

Why a coffeehouse? You do know that they smell.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by brainycat

Yeah, I've noticed that in Ballard and Lynnwood. WTF?!?! I'd pay double what I pay now to enjoy my tea and relax in a coffeeshop that expressly forbade kids during the hours I'm likely to frequent there.

You have to learn the trick to dealing with annoying kids. If you are close enough to the person who is supposed to be dealing with the kid(s), you make a comment just loud enough for that person to hear. if you are not close enough, you go close enough and make the comment. That gets the person to then go deal with the kid(s).

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by brecklundin

And don't even get me going on the tables of teens where each has a cellphone conversation going, a conversation going with the table AND an MP3 player in the free ear...hehehe...it really is so over the top it's funny and has SNL skit written all over it.

New or old SNL and if old SNL, how old?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Freeshadow

@crich70
you are right but, it still is not the same.
for a lot of people due to different reasons (i think there was already a thread about that)
mine is speed. I read already faster than all people I know.
an audiobook for text reception is from my POV as comfortable as an old school modem compared to a DSL connection

For me, I find I take in more reading a book then I do listening to it. I can read where there is some background noise such as the TV. But if I was to try to listen to a book, I'd need the TV off.

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Why a coffeehouse? You do know that they smell.

they couldn't possibly smell. they may havea stench but they can't smell.

surely you have been here long enough to know how to multi quote?

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

or you could be straight and constantly have lesbians interrupting you!

Well, if they were cute...

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

they couldn't possibly smell. they may havea stench but they can't smell.

surely you have been here long enough to know how to multi quote?

The problem here is the software is configured not to allow proper quoting. And to multi-quote is just a pain.

Ok, a coffeehouse has an unpleasant stench.

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

You have to learn the trick to dealing with annoying kids. If you are close enough to the person who is supposed to be dealing with the kid(s), you make a comment just loud enough for that person to hear. if you are not close enough, you go close enough and make the comment. That gets the person to then go deal with the kid(s).

Don't count on it. Even if you directly ask many parents (even if after dropping the hint), they either just don't care and ignore you or get upset for accusing their little darlings of misbehaving.