12-20-2009, 06:53 AM | #31 | |
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12-20-2009, 07:05 AM | #33 |
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12-20-2009, 07:11 AM | #34 | |
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12-20-2009, 10:49 AM | #35 |
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I've always had similar problems with dead tree books-- someone always has to ask you if it is a good book (no, it is horrible, I'm reading it just to torture myself) and whatever scrap of paper you are using as a bookmark, someone always-- even in they never touch anything else on your desk or area-- always has to pick it up and look at it.
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12-20-2009, 12:38 PM | #36 | |
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I got my Rocket eBook reader back in December of '99 as an early Christmas present for myself. (I blame an author friend of mine for making me read an entire manuscript on my computer's CRT screen for driving me buying the reader. That was the first and last book I read on my PC.) Another thread I've posted in today relates to the most common question I ever got regarding it: 'Is that a Kindle?' Talk about the power of perception. Due to Amazon's sheer advertising muscle, many people believe that the Kindle is the 'original' eBook reader. |
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12-20-2009, 01:55 PM | #37 | |
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1. Stupid question is a question that can be answered by the originator if they just spend 3 seconds thinking about it. There fore it is easy to identify it, if it looks like the question will fill the gaps in the knowledge of the issuer it's from ignorance. If the question just hangs in the middle and violates all common sense laws like "do you have to download books", then it's bona fide stupid remark and you can laugh and make fun of the person. Seriously I would've answered "no you have to retype them in" and walked away fast. Thank you for that list. |
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12-20-2009, 02:09 PM | #38 |
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Well, I can change "Is that a Kindle?" for "Is that a Papyre?", because I live in Spain Some persons have asked me about the e-reader (few, I suppose the same reason nobody has said me anything or looked weird about my book covers -typical romance-, I don't look very friendly ), but they had questions about capabilities, prices and things like that, nothing else.
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12-20-2009, 02:42 PM | #39 |
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I was really surprised, actually, when I had mine with me and one of my co-workers asked, "Ooh, you have a Sony! Why did you choose that one over Kindle?" so at least they recognized what it was. xD
I don't get really strange questions; mostly, people just ask to look at the screen and then are pleasantly surprised at just how much it looks like a paper book. One of them actually said he'd been thinking about getting one, but thought the screen would be like a computer screen and hurt his eyes - but after learning about the e-Ink screen, he was definitely planning on getting a reader. |
12-20-2009, 04:53 PM | #40 |
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I think the general public expects video on small devices because of the incredible things phones can do.
I get a few inquiries about my DX, I'm always happy to answer them in detail because it means another ebook convert and more money going into the technology. I get the odd question about video but most people know what it is and just want a closer look. |
12-21-2009, 11:53 AM | #41 |
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12-21-2009, 04:48 PM | #42 |
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12-21-2009, 04:54 PM | #43 |
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I got kind of a strange reply to my kindle, yesterday my nephew came (not so little nephew) and I was reading on my Kindle. He asks "hey, is that some kind of e-reader?". What a surprise anyone I know knows about e-readers. (ps: I'm in Belguim , Europe so no advertising at all about these things.)
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12-21-2009, 05:04 PM | #44 | |
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"Stupid questions," in my mind, aren't the ones like "is that a Kindle" (I refrain from answering, "yeah, it's the special red edition... it goes faster!") or "how much do the books cost?" (I mostly don't care; I don't buy DRM, and fanfic is free.) Stupid questions are "do you have to download books for it?"... because what *other* options would there be? "Does it have a printer?" ... anyone who knows the very *basics* of how to operate a printer, should be able to glance at an ebook reader and say, "no printer here." While I try to be polite in person, I'm not going to fret if someone who asked a stupid question gets embarrassed when they realize that thirty seconds of thought would've answered it for them. All that said--I like being an ambassador of ebooks; I point people to Mobileread and try to tell them that there's more than the Kindle available. (And I get asked questions just often enough that I'm seriously considering changing my transit reading habits; currently, I usually can't show them what I'm reading to show off the e-ink screen. There's no lurid covers on the fanfic I read, but the text certainly makes up for it.) |
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12-21-2009, 05:20 PM | #45 |
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I commute to work on the train from a distant suburb. There are a large number of regular train riders using Kindles. I'm the only one I've seen with a Sony reader. Many people read on their cell phones. There are a lot of passengers reading paper books. a few laptops, and lots of ipods. Almost no one reads the newspaper any more and very few read magazines.
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