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Old 03-18-2008, 12:08 AM   #16
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I know two people with eInk based e-book readers (exclusive of this community), who use them and thus got me interested. I know of a handful of people who read e-books on a variety of other devices. I know of no one who has a dedicated e-book reader who doesn't use it. And the largest group: I know lots of people who don't own e-book readers and don't use them. From all of the above we can deduce that half the babies born every year are Chinese and thus all my children had a 50/50 chance of being Chinese. I like Scotch. Except for tape, in which case I prefer duct. Gimboo.
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Old 03-18-2008, 03:17 AM   #17
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I don't know anyone else with an ebook reader. I think a bigger factor in not using ebook readers is not a disinterest in reading but being too lazy/stupid to learn to use the technology. My whole family relies on me to put music on their mp3 players and software on their computers. If they were given an ebook reader they would probably discard it rather than learn how to download books (unless the Amazon Kindle system is simpler than the Sony eBook Store).

A few of my friends would probably use an ebook reader were they given it but I doubt they'd buy one themselves because they don't read much and would rather spend their money elsewhere (ie on beer).
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Old 03-18-2008, 06:37 AM   #18
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I know two people with eInk based e-book readers (exclusive of this community), who use them and thus got me interested. I know of a handful of people who read e-books on a variety of other devices. I know of no one who has a dedicated e-book reader who doesn't use it. And the largest group: I know lots of people who don't own e-book readers and don't use them. From all of the above we can deduce that half the babies born every year are Chinese and thus all my children had a 50/50 chance of being Chinese. I like Scotch. Except for tape, in which case I prefer duct. Gimboo.
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Old 03-18-2008, 11:09 AM   #19
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Old 03-18-2008, 11:26 AM   #20
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Old 03-18-2008, 11:55 AM   #21
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Old 03-18-2008, 11:59 AM   #22
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