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Originally Posted by bugeyed
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
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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...