Interview: Author Susan Orlean on her life with the iPad

08.08.2010

...He never asked to use my laptop, there's nothing fun about that.

Oh, that was so funny. It's funny because I am like a consumer geek. I don't know anything. I mean I just don't know anything. I'm merely an avid consumer. I'm willing to try anything. And I kind of love stuff. So I think he liked the idea of somebody who is quite unexpected.

Right. It was funny, because when my husband got his iPhone, he said to me, "I want to read the manual." And I said, "There is no manual. That's the point. There is no manual." It's funny. The ease of using it.