"There are great numbers of people to whom the act of reading a book -- any sort of book -- is wondrous; they speak of the reader in the tone of warm approbation which they use otherwise when referring to pregnant women, or the newly dead."
Robertson Davies (1913-1995)
Those must be the same people who absolutely must ask you what you are reading if you have the audacity to pull out a book in a coffee shop, waiting room, park bench or other public place.