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Alphapheemail · 05-13-2009, 03:22 PM

I get a lot of questions about the reader in my subway travels. I don't bother posting them bc they are never out of the ordinary. I usually have my headphones on with no sound only to make my sitting to walking transition easy; while they are off i always hear all sorts of comments by my fellow commuters on my reader since they think I can't hear them. Well this morning that same occurrence happened. This time is was a young couple, and the girlfriend ( I assume ) was telling the boyfriend to look over, and she proceeds to explain to him what it is ( she nailed the explanation), but she adds that she has never seen one like mine saying it looks "hott", and that she never liked the kindle bc it looks too much like some sort of translator or dictionary that tourists lug around. I can see where she finds the resemblance...

just a curious bit of insight of the possibly "non mobile read community memeber" muggle view on the kindle

tee hee... i'm biased... yes... sue me.

Harry001 · 05-13-2009, 03:54 PM

I read everywhere I go, wait, sit ...
but nobody has asked me for the last 5 month.

no wonder ----> I live in New York City

nobody cares about the next one

keep reading
harry

Alphapheemail · 05-13-2009, 03:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Harry001

I read everywhere I go, wait, sit ...
but nobody has asked me for the last 5 month.

no wonder ----> I live in New York City

nobody cares about the next one

keep reading
harry

not true. I live in the nyc too. and I've been asked around 10X since March. Maybe you give off the "new yorker" vibe...

DrMoze · 05-13-2009, 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Alphapheemail

I usually have my headphones on with no sound only to make my sitting to walking transition easy...

This I do not understand.

BTW, I'm in NYC and when I used my Reader on a subway commute, I'd get questions about it about 1-2 times per week. (I don't have to commute anymore

, so I get fewer Reader questions now!)

Alphapheemail · 05-14-2009, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by DrMoze

This I do not understand.

BTW, I'm in NYC and when I used my Reader on a subway commute, I'd get questions about it about 1-2 times per week. (I don't have to commute anymore

, so I get fewer Reader questions now!)

It's so that when I stop reading I just have to push play on my ipod and not have to fiddle with my headphones to get them on again.

I get all of my reading done on the subway, so if I started to drive my reading would be close to null...=(

Pangolyn · 05-20-2009, 07:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Lady Blue

Strangely, I've NEVER seen anybody else in my day to day travels with ANY e-ink reader. And I don't live in some tiny backwater town either. Very strange.

I've never seen a personal one in the wild, just display models. I live in NE Atlanta.

ruth1304 · 05-20-2009, 07:52 AM

I had never seen one either, until the first time I took mine on the train with me, when I discovered that someone sitting 2 seats away from me had a Kindle - as I'm in the UK I wasn't really expecting that!

Pangolyn · 05-20-2009, 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by goodellboy

...Another coworker feared that I was carrying a Bible around with me. To my eye, the dimensions aren't quite right for even a New Testament...Sometimes, when I'm carrying it at my side, people look at it a little saucer-eyed. Maybe there is something to the Bible-appearance thing.

I live in the deep south bible belt. I was thinking that my new (not here yet) M-Edge cover would make it look MORE like a Bible. Probably 1/2 of the cars in the parking lot have Bibles displayed in them. I think that a nondescript Bible-ish cover would be less likely to be stolen than a black cover with "Sony" on it (I have a 700).

mjhudston · 05-22-2009, 01:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ruth1304

I had never seen one either, until the first time I took mine on the train with me, when I discovered that someone sitting 2 seats away from me had a Kindle - as I'm in the UK I wasn't really expecting that!

I travel around the UK alot by train. Yet to this day I have never seen any one else with one.

chinesealbumart · 05-31-2009, 06:35 AM

today i brought my PRS 505 out and as my family are having fun, i sat in one corner of the mall (with other dads killing our time).... i brought the PRS 505 out and immediately the other dad caught sight of it and we talked about this ebook reader.. amazing..

badgoodDeb · 06-01-2009, 05:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chinesealbumart

today i brought my PRS 505 out and as my family are having fun, i sat in one corner of the mall (with other dads killing our time).... i brought the PRS 505 out and immediately the other dad caught sight of it and we talked about this ebook reader.. amazing..

Good job! We need to proselytize and get more people hooked on ebook readers!

JuniperPearl · 06-01-2009, 07:18 PM

I get asked about mine all the time. Most notably was during class one day - the professor stopped everything to ask me what I was using, and if I liked it. Of course, he continued to call it a Kindle (or would say that I was "Kindling") for the rest of the semester even after I said it was a Sony Reader, but oh well. People were definitely interested, and now when they see me, they go, "Oh yeah, you're the Kindle girl, right? How do you like it?" I've given several people advice about which eBook device to get. Bwahaha! Converting one person at a time!

coase · 06-03-2009, 10:49 AM

I was traveling through Europe over the last few weeks and got questions about my Reader on the plane, in the airport and once in the train station. I even had a group come up to me in the hotel lounge when I was relaxing one evening with a beer in one hand and the Reader in the other. No one had even heard of it.

Twice I was asked: Do you have to buy a new Reader every time you get new books?

stoogeswoman · 06-03-2009, 11:06 AM

Just this morning a guy sat next to me on the Red Line (L.A.) and immediately said, "Oh cool, that's that Kindle thingy I've been hearing about, in't it?" :-)

(btw, I was reading "Michael Tolliver Lives" by Armistead Maupin - for all you Tales of the City fans, it's great!)

ChipnDale · 06-03-2009, 12:55 PM

I've never seen one "in the wild" either...I'm in montreal so that could be part of the problem (Kindle isn't really useful here, Sony cannot display thier readers because they do not have bilingual instructions and buttons ect).

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05-13-2009, 03:22 PM	#61
Alphapheemail .a ribbon around a bomb. Posts: 639 Karma: 4334 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: sigh... ny Device: PRS700	I get a lot of questions about the reader in my subway travels. I don't bother posting them bc they are never out of the ordinary. I usually have my headphones on with no sound only to make my sitting to walking transition easy; while they are off i always hear all sorts of comments by my fellow commuters on my reader since they think I can't hear them. Well this morning that same occurrence happened. This time is was a young couple, and the girlfriend ( I assume ) was telling the boyfriend to look over, and she proceeds to explain to him what it is ( she nailed the explanation), but she adds that she has never seen one like mine saying it looks "hott", and that she never liked the kindle bc it looks too much like some sort of translator or dictionary that tourists lug around. I can see where she finds the resemblance... just a curious bit of insight of the possibly "non mobile read community memeber" muggle view on the kindle tee hee... i'm biased... yes... sue me.

05-13-2009, 03:54 PM	#62
Harry001 Addict Posts: 210 Karma: 729 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Tehran/Iran - new posting 2024 Device: Nook glow light 3, 3+ and 4+, Tolino Epos 1, 2 and 3	I read everywhere I go, wait, sit ... but nobody has asked me for the last 5 month. no wonder ----> I live in New York City nobody cares about the next one keep reading harry

05-20-2009, 07:52 AM	#67
ruth1304 Addict Posts: 394 Karma: 1546 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Bristol, UK Device: Waiting for a kindle!	I had never seen one either, until the first time I took mine on the train with me, when I discovered that someone sitting 2 seats away from me had a Kindle - as I'm in the UK I wasn't really expecting that!

05-31-2009, 06:35 AM	#70
chinesealbumart Enthusiast Posts: 33 Karma: 332 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Singapore Device: Sony PRS505	today i brought my PRS 505 out and as my family are having fun, i sat in one corner of the mall (with other dads killing our time).... i brought the PRS 505 out and immediately the other dad caught sight of it and we talked about this ebook reader.. amazing..

06-01-2009, 07:18 PM	#72
JuniperPearl Enthusiast Posts: 38 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: New York Device: Sony PRS-505, Kindle 2, Kindle Fire, iPhone 5, Kindle Voyage	I get asked about mine all the time. Most notably was during class one day - the professor stopped everything to ask me what I was using, and if I liked it. Of course, he continued to call it a Kindle (or would say that I was "Kindling") for the rest of the semester even after I said it was a Sony Reader, but oh well. People were definitely interested, and now when they see me, they go, "Oh yeah, you're the Kindle girl, right? How do you like it?" I've given several people advice about which eBook device to get. Bwahaha! Converting one person at a time!

06-03-2009, 10:49 AM	#73
coase Enthusiast Posts: 41 Karma: 500 Join Date: Apr 2009 Device: Nook Color	I was traveling through Europe over the last few weeks and got questions about my Reader on the plane, in the airport and once in the train station. I even had a group come up to me in the hotel lounge when I was relaxing one evening with a beer in one hand and the Reader in the other. No one had even heard of it. Twice I was asked: Do you have to buy a new Reader every time you get new books?

06-03-2009, 11:06 AM	#74
stoogeswoman Zealot Posts: 149 Karma: 492 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Reseda, CA Device: eBookwise 1150 and Kindle 1	Just this morning a guy sat next to me on the Red Line (L.A.) and immediately said, "Oh cool, that's that Kindle thingy I've been hearing about, in't it?" :-) (btw, I was reading "Michael Tolliver Lives" by Armistead Maupin - for all you Tales of the City fans, it's great!)

06-03-2009, 12:55 PM	#75
ChipnDale Rescue Rangers Posts: 109 Karma: 2144082 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Visitor from another planet Device: IPad	I've never seen one "in the wild" either...I'm in montreal so that could be part of the problem (Kindle isn't really useful here, Sony cannot display thier readers because they do not have bilingual instructions and buttons ect).

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