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Originally Posted by rsmin
I have the K1, and bought the GDX a few weeks ago. I have no remorse at all. I am left handed and don't miss the buttons on the left at all. In fact I found while using my K1 I had always used the buttons on the right. Plus it's easier to hold with my left hand and not worrying about hitting a button which sometimes happened with the K1.
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Thanks for the feedback about buttons, but if you had the K1 and had not tried out a K2, ya missed out that the buttons worked significantly different on the K1 compared the K2 versions. On the K1 the buttons pushed outward to activate and on the K2 the buttons push inward which as you see with the GDX is a big and welcome difference...
Now with your GDX you can actually hold the device by the button (on the outer edge of course) if need be w/o activating it.
Interesting that you found ya used the right side buttons the most...I find I have always read holding the book in my left hand. I think it is somewhat natural to hold reading material in your off-hand allowing your "everyday" hand to remain free for other tasks like notes, page turning or holding your tasty beverage/lunch. So I sense your off-hand use is consistent with my experience as well as what we have discussed here on MR in other threads in the past.
I originally had a K1 since like the 3rd month it was released. Never really liked it then once I tried the K2 I actually started to like the Kindle, which really did not "blow my skirt up" initially in no part due to the problematic buttons and their accidental activation simply by changing hand position on the device. It was actually a pretty common complaint about the K1.
BTW, my reason for needing buttons on bot sides is physical so to me that some does not miss them on one side doesn't work...I have to have them on both sides as I need to change hand position frequently and can rarely hold the reader in one hand or the other more than 30-60 seconds at a time. Not an RSI related issue but rather a life long issue with my hands and other joints. And even though the GDX is going to pretty much be a 2-handed reader I will still need to move my hands around often and, unfortunately for me, my right hand has more pain than the left though neither hand is ever pain free.
BTW, this is one of my reasons for a simple tiny IR remote control being an option for either Kindle...I can use a simply wire frame easel style plate stand to prop up the Kindle and change pages with the remote...and with a large reader I would see many who already like to user a book stand to read on would also be interested in a remote....but still we would be a small minority of users so it's not fair to think it a feature everyone could use. So I would be happy to have every Kindle be enabled with an IR receiver but us who would use it need to spend extra, and enough to help cover the cost, say even as much as $50, for the added hardware even though the hardware would be less than a buck and once added to the design ti development overhead is spread across the whole lifespan of the device...of course to force users to buy an Amazon branded IR remote would mean some pretty good encryption as those codes are usually pretty easy to crack...
oops, went OT...sorry about that...hehehe....
