[eric11210]

Hi folks,

I've been trolling around the forums here for a few weeks and doing lots of reading about various devices. I finally settled on the Sony Touch and ordered one from Borders (I live overseas and they had the cheapest shipping). Just registered here for the first time today after my reader finally arrived.

Anyway, thanks to everyone who had great information which helped me make a purchase choice. Now to see if I really like it.

As I said, it just arrived today and so these two questions are based on first impressions:

1. I expected the touch screen on the reader to work the same way as my iPhone, but have been disappointed. As near as I can tell, and please do correct me if I'm wrong, there is only a choice of forward when using the touch screen to look at a book. For back, as far as I can tell, I need to use the physical buttons. If someone knows differently and knows of a way to make it use right sweep to move forward and left sweep to move back, I'd really love to know.

Also, another thing I noticed right off the bat was that the size of the default font is too small for my taste. I know how to switch the size to a larger one (just press the magnify button and then choose a size), but wondered if there is any way to make the thing default to a larger size rather than my having to manually change it for each book I read (especially since I have Calibre downloading daily newspapers, it would be a real annoyance to have to constantly reset the size for the newspaper each morning).

I did try to search but found no information.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions on both these questions.

Eric