One of the things I recently noticed recently on Amazon’s Kindle forum, was a posting by a user nicknamed bbug asking for the ages of Kindle users. Granted, the posting is quite old, and most of the respondents were Kindle 1 users. Even initially, I bypassed the posting altogether until something caught my eye:

There were 1329 replies to his posting. Compared to the average count of replies on Amazon’s Kindle forum, this was a killing!

If you spend a few minutes reading people’s responses, you will very see that the ages vary amongst Kindle owners. There is a surprisingly large group of older people (65-80) who are very happy with the device. There is a lot of chatter about arthritis, but I do not believe there is any correlation between it and the device right now. Some have noted that the Kindle feels lighter than a book in their hands, allowing them to read through longer periods of time than they could with their dead tree counterparts.