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<blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5631692" data-attributes="member: 54707">If you're asking me I'm not lamenting anything in particular, I'm making an observation about how technology may be changing reading habits based on the type of technology that's being used to read off of.But let me ask you a question out of curiosity. You're 43 (younger than me) and I don't commute as my home is my office. So the observations you mad interested me. Do you think commuters and people who travel on business (regularly, I have meetings but two or three every two weeks or so) prefer reading off things like Kindles to books (I know you can't generlaize completely, just asking your opinion) because Kindles feel more like laptops and so the technology sort of integrates with their other work devices? I hadn't really thought of it that way before, that there might be a sort of &quot;work familiarity&quot; or synchronization between devices, but now that you mention it, that's an interesting possibility.I'm also interested in the idea of technology as both an aid to efficiency, but also having the unintended consequence of possible fragmenting society by making so many different types of materials available that few people are reading (or listening to) the same things. Anybody have an opinion on that?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jack7, post: 5631692, member: 54707"] If you're asking me I'm not lamenting anything in particular, I'm making an observation about how technology may be changing reading habits based on the type of technology that's being used to read off of. But let me ask you a question out of curiosity. You're 43 (younger than me) and I don't commute as my home is my office. So the observations you mad interested me. Do you think commuters and people who travel on business (regularly, I have meetings but two or three every two weeks or so) prefer reading off things like Kindles to books (I know you can't generlaize completely, just asking your opinion) because Kindles feel more like laptops and so the technology sort of integrates with their other work devices? I hadn't really thought of it that way before, that there might be a sort of "work familiarity" or synchronization between devices, but now that you mention it, that's an interesting possibility. I'm also interested in the idea of technology as both an aid to efficiency, but also having the unintended consequence of possible fragmenting society by making so many different types of materials available that few people are reading (or listening to) the same things. Anybody have an opinion on that? [/QUOTE]

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