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Old 11-06-2010, 07:07 PM   #13
SameerH
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Originally Posted by bugeyed View Post
Thanks for your responses. I see by Pholy's post that the position was more a matter of real estate than ergonomics. I can accept that. As you can see by my sig. I can be picky about such issues & if it had just been the designers preference, I would have a problem with it. So many consumer products miss the mark simply because the engineers don't understand how a products is going to be used. I can deal with limitations of a design if there are valid reasons for a trade-off. BTW I am liking the WiFi Kobo very much. Having a battle with myself for spending the $130 'cause I have a Sony 600. It's the screen that made me do it & I can't justify the price of the Sony 650. Don't need WiFi, but the new screen is nice. Hopefully we will get the firmware fixes we all want soon.
Cheers,
kev
Lot of factors came into it. We were limited in our options due to the nature of the platform we were using.

We did give a couple button configurations a try but they just didn't work well with the platform. This was the simplest way forward given our many constraints.

FWIW, I hold my eReader in my left hand, turning pages with my right...
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