Alone in the Crowd

I finally got my Kindle working. It took me a year to set it up: I've been busy at work, busy divorcing my wife, and busy forgetting my Kindle when I go to a wifi area. Mine was a present, ironically from my wife, and I hadn't really wanted one. I rarely have time to read. But it's done now and I am enjoying all the benefits of reading from a pocket sized library. How do you get five thousand books in your pocket? Get a Kindle.

Apart from it being lightweight, conveniently sized and holding a lot of books, one of the real advantages of a Kindle is that nobody can tell what you're reading. I took full advantage of this when driving home from Yorkshire at the weekend. I stopped for lunch at a service station and once I'd eaten, I bought some coffee and started to read.

I'm reading a book about a man who enjoys watching his wife have intimate relations with other men. It started as a game but progressed to reality when they went to Hawaii. This is something I am interested in and have actually tried; not with my wife but with a less conservative girlfriend a few years ago. For some reason, it's exciting and stimulating, although I wish it wasn't so.

So, I was sat in the middle of a crowded cafe reading explicit stories about a woman getting rogered whilst her husband secretly watches. It was a strange experience; surrounded by busy people doing ordinary things whilst privately living in a very different world. No-one can tell what you're reading, but then no-one really cares. Before, when I read books, people would look to see what the title was, whether they'd read it or wanted to read it. Not so with a Kindle. It is just another device that isolates us from those around us; makes us alone in the crowd.