How popular are ereaders? Not very I would say.

[rogue_librarian]

Originally Posted by jbcohen

What conclusions can we draw from the results that we see above? Clearly electronic readers are more popular in university towns.

Gee, what a surprise.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by jbcohen

What conclusions can we draw from the results that we see above?

Easy.

Hermes needs to hang out with a different crowd.

[Tome Keeper]

Originally Posted by Poppaea

Well, I reckon Sex is popular, even if I don't see people doing it on public transportation

Really, you've obviously not experienced a London nightbus then.

[jbcohen]

What other conclusions can we draw from this discussion?

[elcreative]

Too many words in your second sentence... first four'll probably do...

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Easy.

Hermes needs to hang out with a different crowd.

[phenomshel]

Pretty much apparently it depends on where you are. And whether you see readers in the wild or not probably isn't a reliable indicator. I take my Sony everywhere if I think I'm going to even have a few minutes to read, but I've never seen another reader of any brand in town. However, people will see mine and say, "Oh, I have a (insert brand here) at home." I'm in north central Illinois (rural area) so there is no public transportation. I can see a difference in the attitudes from two years ago when I got my first reader....at that time no one had seen one and didn't know what they were, so I got a lot of questions when I'd pull mine out. Now I get more questions about the cover (Oberon) than the device.
In the after-coverage for Printer's Row Lit Fest (sponsored by the Chicago Tribune) last year, one of the columnists noted that "there wasn't a Kindle in sight". Well, this year I saw a couple of them, in addition to my own Sony. Although everyone I've asked to sign it (authors I mean) invariably mention that it's their first electronic signing, they all know what the device IS.

[faithbw]

Originally Posted by rhadin

If 1 in 100 people own an ereader device, does that make them popular? How about 1 in 250 or 1 in 10? You need to define what constitutes popular. My personal opinion is that considering millions of the devices have been sold, manufacturers keep pumping out new ones, and ebooks outsell pbooks at Amazon, I'd say they are popular. Your not seeing them in the wild doesn't mean anything more than that you haven't seen them in the wild. My wife, for example, who loves her Sony 505 never takes it out of the house.

Good point.

Originally Posted by Poppaea

Well, I reckon Sex is popular, even if I don't see people doing it on public transportation

That said, the natural habitat of the reader is the airport.

I'm flying next week. I'll be curious to see how many of my fellow travelers have e-readers.

I saw a Kindle once when I was visiting a gym. However, I've never seen an e-reader in the wild in my neighborhood. I don't really see too many people reading books in my neighborhood (this includes the library). So I imagine most people in my immediate neighborhood have very little use for dedicated e-readers.

What I have seen a lot of are iPads and tablets. That's not surprising to me.

[rhadin]

Originally Posted by Poppaea

Well, I reckon Sex is popular, even if I don't see people doing it on public transportation

Actually it is questionable in the United States about how "popular" sex is. Recent studies have shown a significant decline in interest with many survey respondents reporting having sex no more often than once or twice per year. Ranking much higher in popularity is companionship sans sex.

Perhaps you do need to see the sex in the wild before you could begin to call it popular.

[Poppaea]

Originally Posted by rhadin

Actually it is questionable in the United States about how "popular" sex is. Recent studies have shown a significant decline in interest with many survey respondents reporting having sex no more often than once or twice per year. Ranking much higher in popularity is companionship sans sex.

Perhaps you do need to see the sex in the wild before you could begin to call it popular.

Seeing sex in the wild is no problem in Berlin. Not seeing sex in the wild is a lot more difficult in Berlin (we are a bit like San Francisco). Seeing it on public transportion is one. At least in my part of the town.

There even are a couple of dance clubs (hetero) where everyone is doing everything with one another, dancing included, but far more sex is going on on the dance floor as actual dancing. The girls bring little towels to sit on as almost none of them wears underwear.

Now this is making the girlscouts being ready all the time looking quite lame.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by elcreative

Too many words in your second sentence... first four'll probably do...

Please stop top posting. It's hard to read. It causes the reader to have to look all over the place and possibly reread.

[DiapDealer]

It causes the reader to have to look all over the place and possibly reread.

Dear god, say it isn't so. Reread?!

[witeowl]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Please stop top posting...

So it's ok to refer to lynching someone, so long as it's done in the proper format.

[SolRaven]

I used to bring my reader out when I knew I would be in a waiting room or such, but since getting a smartphone, I hardly see the point. The only time that I take my readers out of the house is when I'm going on a trip. Im sure there are plenty of others with similar habits, which is why their are so many in the airport. Oddly, I just saw my first Nook color, in the wild, at school last night. I was surprised at how heavy it was.

[taming]

I was standing in line at chapters over the weekend and the woman in back of me, seeing that i was buying a cover for my Kobo, told me that she was buying a Kobo Touch and that she was the last hold out in her book club--that everyone else already had an eReader. She was about 50-55. I asked her how many people were in the club--she said 20 women her age.

Now, from my perspective, if 20 middle aged bookclubbing women in Red Deer, Alberta are using eReaders, then they have to be pretty much mainstream. It helps that our library recently started offering e-books and is promoting them like crazy.

[MrsJoseph]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Where I live, they're so popular it's causing problems. There's gangs of Kindles harassing old-ladies trying to cross the street, and just the other day, I had to chase a group of young Nooks off my lawn. They said it was just a cigarette but I'm pretty sure they were smoking pot. Don't get me started on the Sonys....... punks. Someone's going to need to do something before they take over completely. *shakes fist*