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Originally Posted by Spiffy
Obviously different people have different tolerances (and you may have a much bigger one), but what I see in that first picture (your left hand pic) is you putting all the weight onto your fingers--the palm of your hand isn't involved at all. And that's where, for most people I think, the strength and stability is--using their palm to distribute the weight load. If you just use your fingers, all the strain is transferred pretty much directly to your wrist. Not that its immediately that heavy, but over time I think its cumulative.
Of course what we can't see from that picture is if the unit is also leaning on something at the same time. If so, that would explain the lack of finger/wrist strain.
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I hold my Sony 505 the same way that troymc does in the first and third pictures.
When holding it in my left hand, I don't think I feel the strain that you are talking about because I hold the reader fairly vertically, so I don't need that much muscle and tendon strength to support it. This might be because I often read while standing on the bus instead of sitting down.
When I sit down, I often hold it as in picture 3. I support the book at the spine using my left hand and press either the original page turn button or the right navigator button to flip pages.