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Originally Posted by Poppaea
The fact that you own a tablet which takes time to open the dictionary as it doesn't have it on board is irrelevant when the ereaders in question do have their dictionaries right on board... Your buying decision is hardly the OP's fault.
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I think you misunderstood my post, there is nothing wrong with my tablet and it's common on Kindle Android app to check dictionary online, regardless of your hardware.
The OP is asking about what extra value touchscreen adds to a normal reading experience, defining normal reading experience as reading a novel or a pure text book and the answer is, nothing extra.
-Turning pages: I can do it with buttons on an eink device
-Dictionary: I can use the joystick or buttons for that
-Highlight: you can do it with buttons
-Annotations: you can do it, actually, with a keyboard as well but not a virtual one.
As you can see, there is nothing extra or different.
Now, if you read my comment and previous post, I am not talking about reading technical materials or studying; on those cases, there is no question that touchscreen could be better, like an HP slate, for example or an iPad, but the ability to export and sync your own annotations between that device and others is not always a seamless process.
I am glad that you like your Sony touchscreen, but the fact is that for reading a novel, the touchscreen really does not change the experience in a radical way. Moving around the operating system itself is different, but that's not my point. I also think that for PDF documents and studying, Sony touchscreen readers are awesome, but not all people buy an ereader for PDF only purposes or just for studying.