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Originally Posted by Sonny Blount
Only if
1. Screen quality is not compromised at all.
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Not at all.
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Originally Posted by Sonny Blount
2. Buttons remain. Touch is a 2-handed operation IMO, buttons work 1-handed.
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Buttons are there. I never use them except for the things there is no touch option for (quick shortcut to home screen, pulling up the size and option menus).
However I read 1-handed with the touch screen all the time while nursing my son. I hold the book with my four fingers (reader between my index finger and middle finger) and use my thumbnail to turn the pages.
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Originally Posted by Sonny Blount
3. It is able to be disabled. Don't want it accidently triggered.
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Can't be disabled. I have never accidentally triggered it while reading. The times I have accidentally and annoyingly triggered it is when I've put the reader down to do something and didn't realize something was touching the screen. I come back to find the book either at the beginning or the end. Luckily I discovered there is a "Return to Previous Position" option in the "Go to" menu so I can easily get back to where I was. I suppose more careful handling would eliminate this problem.
The way the Sony is set up if you turned off the touch screen the device would be useless. There are buttons for some functions, but not all. For instance you couldn't select a book to read. Big downer for an ereader.
The only real negative I find with the PRS-650 and it is a result of something I think is a net positive, is that it is slow to load the home screen if you try to return from a book. I assume this is due to the database crunching as the device sorts the various collections. It probably wouldn't be a problem if I didn't have 2100 books and 330 collections on the reader. I'm willing to put up with it for the amazing collections feature that lets me group series and tagged books together easily, and lets the same book appear in more than one collection without being duplicated on the reader.
-Marcy