Here's a restaurant I would never patronize. The New York Times BITS blogger Nick Bilton had a piece yesterday entitled No E-Books Allowed in This Establishment that tells of his experience he walked into a Manhattan coffee shop for an afternoon cappuccino and sat down with his Kindle while he waited for his order:
"I barely made it a sentence into the e-book I was reading before an employee of the coffee shop came by, stood over me and said, 'Excuse me sir, but we don’t allow computers in the coffee shop.'"
Same thing happened to him in a Brooklyn sandwich shop. Ugh. It's enough to ruin your appetite.
2 comments:
The original post is intriguing. But much more than the post itself are the comments. Have you read them Steve? Let me quote one:
"Seriously Bilton, if you can't pry yourself away from your "e-book reader" without throwing a hissy fit then you've got a problem. Here's a suggestion: next time get your ridiculously over-priced breuvage to go and sit in the park with the other misfits or better yet, make your own coffee and stay home surrounded by your electronic toys."
I'm not from USA so was wondering if this was the standard local establishment policy restricting a patron's time spent there or just in Manhattan area. In my country even at peak hours people are happily chatting away even when places are filled to the brim. Electronic devices are a novelty in coffee shops but people usually spend even more time socializing there in the old fashioned way.
I've had problems getting my Kindle through airport security because they think it is a computer. Wish people understood they are a way people read books! At most mine could be a big cell phone, when I have the 3G turned on.
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