Paper Media Poll: Programmer 'Rick', Never Much of a Reader, Now Itches For His Kindle At Lunch

"Rick" came of age delivering the Atlanta's afternoon paper, the Journal ("now the Atlanta Journal-Constitution," he said,) from his bicycle after school. He's a computer programmer who no longer buys the San Jose Mercury News. His two laptops and phone are strictly for coding and work. But Rick associates his $50 Kindle Fire with prose during lunch. "I didn't have it the other day and I was really irritated."

Rick admits he'd sometimes spend a year without completing a book." "I just had no habit of reading. But I do have a habit of eating lunch!" He now completes several books. "I just finished 'Lab Rats'," he told the paper pollster.

He likes that the hardcovers and paperbacks no longer hold space on his shelves. "It was especially painful having to see all of those books that I never finished!"

Rick does not consume newspapers on his Kindle, he said.



<-- Paper Media Poll: Lay Readers Follow Bylines | Paper Media Poll: GenZer Wants Print, Asks How Long Newsracks 'Have Been Broken' -->


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Also this month: commuter "Ahmed" reads only books now. "I don't like carrying a separate newspaper." Ahmed's Kindle synchronizes his bookmark in any text to his phone and laptop, "it syncs to all my devices."


( Coming soon: tech reporter "Mauve" selects leads from her weekend, paper, Wall Street Journal -> )


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Further Reading:

Books fill vending machines in Tennessee.   theweek.com





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