"Sometimes I think the librarians think I'm antisocial or something because I can sit there for hours reading without a care for anything else." She smiled and blushed at his compliment, her free hand grabbing some ends of her long hair and fidgeting with it. "Thank you, I am glad you think so. It must be all the reading I've done." She chuckled softly, her dark eyes having a sparkle to them.
Listening to his explanation, she nodded in understand. "It's more of using something familiar to you. And it can be strange getting used to things in this place. But I think you'll get the hang of it. In many ways, the technology here is much like magic. So you can always try looking at it like that?" She made the offer, hoping it would help him adjust better to technology and the like here.
When he handed her the book, she took it and opened it, beginning to page through it. Though at first, the language was strange and one she didn't know, but she found the words changed into a language she could read. And, of course, she couldn't help but start to read it as she walked. Elphaba was completely unaware of her surroundings, save for Merlin, as she walked. Books had a way of sucking her in in such a way, and she had a history of walking while reading. It almost always ended up with her running into someone or something. "This is fascinating," she said after a minute of reading.