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Old 02-24-2009, 04:49 PM   #61
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Yikes. Then I'm a fetus at 26!
And at 74 this has me feebly crawling into my grave!

But I have to say that when I was in my early 40's I wouldn't have had any spare money to buy Kindles...

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Old 02-24-2009, 04:51 PM   #62
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Well, Desert Grandma is estimated to be about 90 or so...

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Old 02-24-2009, 07:49 PM   #64
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And at 74 this has me feebly crawling into my grave!

But I have to say that when I was in my early 40's I wouldn't have had any spare money to buy Kindles...

Patricia
Ouch!!! I too in my 40's couldn't afford gadget thingies, but at 72 have a Kindle, with another Mark 1 Kindle winging it's way from America, plus an HP iPaq and an iPhone 3G.

Love gadgets and ereading.
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Old 02-24-2009, 08:09 PM   #65
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Well, Desert Grandma is estimated to be about 90 or so...

/me running away and hiding from the stick/

HEY! I'm not within 10 years of that!
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Old 02-24-2009, 09:56 PM   #66
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I would submit that those of us in out forties are the ones who created the electronics market of today.... walkman's, PC's, cell phones.... all started when I was a "kid".
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were both born in 1954-55 so I would say that engineers currently in their 50s, 60s and 70s created today's electronics market. The 40-somethings gave us the web (not the Internet though).
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Old 02-24-2009, 09:58 PM   #67
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I'm mostly a lurker around here, but I thought I'd poke my head out to represent "young" people reading! I'm 27; I bought my Kindle at 26 and I bought my first e-book reader at 24. There are still young people reading, and we don't all want iPhones!

And it's not that I had a tremendous amount of disposable income, either (I was still in college when I bought my Ebookwise), it's that I wanted the readers that badly
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Old 02-24-2009, 10:10 PM   #68
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I'm surprised (pleasantly so) at the age range we have represented here. I'm clearly on the younger end of the spectrum clocking in at 28, and most of the Kindle owners I know are my age or slightly older. Glad to see that the technology has been heartily embraced by all age groups!
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Old 02-24-2009, 10:16 PM   #69
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Let's see, I'm going to be 57 this year. I got my first ebook reader in the mid 90s. I built my first computer from scratch when I was 32 and just starting law school.

My first ebook reader was a Rocket Ebook 1100. I still have it. It still works. And, I still have the software to create books for it .... somewhere in that disaster I call my "workshop".
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Old 02-25-2009, 02:01 PM   #70
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I was rather surprised to find the entire Twilight series, young adult literature, listed in the top 10 bestselling Kindle Books. Wouldn't that indicate that many Kindle users are also young? Or at least parents are sharing their Kindles with their children?
I'm 43 and a Kindle owner. I also read all the Twilight books while my teenage sons wouldn't have anything to do with them. (BTW, I share my Kindle with no one).
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Old 02-27-2009, 09:13 AM   #71
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Hey now, I have worked with computers, since 1970, and know many my age that love the "gadgets", so imo u might up that age a bit.
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Old 02-27-2009, 11:29 AM   #72
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Hmmmm, guess the tender age of sixty is topping out this thread but I dare anyone to call me "senior" cause I'm far from that status! LOL
We older gadget freaks need to stick together.

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Old 02-27-2009, 11:10 PM   #73
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47. first e-reader. i've been watching this technology closely for over 15 years. fan of: hitchhiker's guide, inspector gadget (animated), the diamond age. ordered k2 yesterday.

i am most relieved to see that younger people still read!

i never worried about it until i heard that reading is purported to be on the decline. then i thought, "whoops. guess we took some stuff for granted.." but maybe not.
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Old 02-28-2009, 01:06 AM   #74
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Old 02-28-2009, 02:59 AM   #75
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I'm actually surprised there aren't more younger e-reader users on here. The only people I've seen with e-readers are from my high school, where frustratingly, they are banned.
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