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Ex-Helpdesk Junkie
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I read whenever I am walking places... I have gotten very good at avoiding obstacles, a source of great surprise to most people who know me!
I see I am not alone... |
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Although it's not quite yet freezing here in Germany, this question has crossed my mind. At the moment I often use my Kindle PW2 to read when I'm waiting for the bus, but as soon as I need to wear gloves I'll switch to my Pocketbook Touch Lux which has buttons.
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Books are brain food.
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It doesn't get cold enough where I live to affect which device I use, but I do read more books when the weather's inclement.
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I live in a pretty quiet, low-traffic area which after about 20 minutes of walking starts to hook up to the busier city centre.
So for about the first 15-20 mins and if the weather's nice, I often do read, provided I'm basically one of the only people on the sidewalk and there's like, no cars obviously driving way too fast and recklessly. Once I start to have more pedestrian company and there's more than a handful of motor vehicles occasionally going by, the e-reader gets put away and I start paying more attention to my surroundings. It also rains a lot around here, so that does affect my choice of reading device, and my old buttons-only K2 is far easier to manage in a plastic baggie while I'm waiting for the bus than my Sony, which requires more touchiness, navigation-wise. |
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Riding the bus means I do change devices and often read paper. It's the penalty for living in a place that even though Winter is twenty days away, it has been -25C overnight a few times already.
Today I was reading on my phone. My Kindle remains indoors at home for most of the winter. |
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What I find amazing and appalling is seeing people read (or nowadays, text) while driving. Not while stopped but in moving vehicles. |
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Hmm, that IS appalling. It is one thing to read while you are walking on a sidewalk, where the worst that can happen is the incredibly awkward and rude bumping-into-people, it is another thing to do so when the worstthat can happen is careening into a building, flattening several pedestrians along the way, and killing numerous people (including yourself) while at the same time causing property damage for good measure (because you haven't done enough damage yet).
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British police are very, very strict on this kind of thing, and if caught you'll face a stiff fine and points on your licence. Anything that distracts you from controlling the vehicle - even, for example, drinking from a bottle of water - is prohibited.
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I see the 'Looking only at their Device' people walk off the curb without looking at /for the traffic-'Don't Walk' sign ![]() |
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Done properly, reads-while-walking is totally safe, whereas Driving Under the Book (DUB ~= DUI) fundamentally has no safety mechanisms. People can take anything to extremes. Personally, I feel safe walking on the sidewalk, I would no more cross a crosswalk while reading than I would step off the side into the road. |
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I can see it now. Someone reading while walking along side a road run over by someone reading while driving.
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