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Originally Posted by Jazzetta
Touch screens have two large fails, IMO, outside of the glare issue and the battery life issues, both which may or may not be fixed with some new technology someday.
Problem one: they are a serious annoyance to someone with large hands. My father is 6'8", and his fingers are twice as thick as my thumb...
And they also make life more difficult on the visibly impaired...
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This is again people looking for issues. Guess what? They might not be right for you or your Dad, but most people are not 6'8" and can deal with the touch screen fine. I gave my Dad my old PRS-900 and he loves it. He somehow deals with the touchscreen despite his man-sized fingers and even though it has noticeable glare he still loves it for the large font sizes that his aging eyes can read easily. A PRS-950 would get rid of the glare and I offered to buy one for him, but he said he was happy with the 900.
You can use your fingernails on the touch screen instead of your finger pads, which is what I do. So the large fingers are actually a non-issue. And except for selecting a word in the text to look up in the dictionary when the text is smaller (I read on the smallest size), nothing you select on the Sony is a small area. It is nothing like an iphone where even my small fingers have a hard time on the keyboard.
As to the visually impaired, anyone impaired enough that they can't read the index of books and get their finger on the 1cm strip of screen devoted to each book, is in the legally blind range and not the target audience of an ereader. This is more nonsense like the school that banned the use of Kindles for a class because they couldn't be used by the blind. Guess what? The blind can't use a book either, so why not ban them? But I digress.
A legitimate reason for not liking a touchscreen is "I don't like it." But all these non-reasons are silly trying to make your opinion a fact rather than just an opinion. I've liked using non-touchscreen devices, but a touchscreen that doesn't impact on screen clarity is so much better *for me*. I really liked my PB360, but scrolling around the text to get to a word for dictionary look-up was totally cumbersome.
-Marcy