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Originally Posted by malliemcg
From your post I assume that she's worried she'll find the existence of the keyboard irritating? To be honest, you forget it's there after a very short period of time, I've had my kindle 3 now for 10 days and while the use of the keyboard can be annoying (letters not showing up all that quickly or mistyping) it's not that big of a deal. Once you're in reading a book, the only buttons are next and back.
I have more problems hitting the forward/back buttons when picking it up after having placed it down to do something not worth switching it off.
My annoyances around the kindle are some software design decisions (not being able to hit up up up to get the to the bottom few options in menus and having to use down down down down down down down to get to the same place), regional restrictions on eBooks and poorly converted books that seem to have been scanned, run through an OCR, a speelcheeker and charged out at $8 complete with some glaring mistakes that take you out of the book. Only one of those Amazon can do anything about. The device itself I love over a physical book, and is so easy to use, and when my eyes are getting tired, I can make the words bigger, can't do that w/ a pbook  |
yes, she's worried that the keyboard would impact on her reading enjoyment - that she won't be able to tune its presence out. Although the consensus seems to be that most people do ignore it and it doesn't interfere.