Thread: Why have e-readers ditched page turn buttons?
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Old 07-03-2015, 11:58 AM   #23
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
I swore up and down that I would never buy/use a reader that didn't have physical page turn buttons. I stomped my feet. I didn't want a touch screen. It would get all smudged. I was an a-hole to anybody who didn't recognize the superiority of the physical button (and the inherent grunge-factor of the touch screen). I LOVED those buttons.

Or so I thought.

I don't miss--or even think about--them any more. I picked up my old kindle and couldn't even imagine why I was so in love with those buttons.

Silly buttons.

Oh, and the touch-screen really is ridonkulously smudged up. I just don't see them any more unless I make it a point to (though I did religiously clean it at first).

It's a post-button world. I no longer fight it.
I thought the same thing with my Kindle 4. I still have it, but I now have a 2014 Kindle Touch that I bought a few days ago, and find it to be better. There was one time I had a touch screen e-reader that went berzerk when I happened to tap for a page turn at the same time as going over several potholes during a commute. But thankfully I learned to use the bookmark feature obsessively.
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