Love the intelligent reply, insults always reinforce your point... point of touch screen is to use touch screen especially helpful for arthritic joints and/or carpal tunnel syndrome users who find button pressing exacerbates their problems and causes pain... and I read for several hours every day (anything up to 1,000 page turns) and recharge around 7-10 days when battery drops a couple of bars... really low life span!!!
And I did state "Each to his own..."
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Originally Posted by delphin
Take some time to READ what I proposed before you 'shoot from the lip'.
Your Idea SHUTS DOWN the reader to try to extend battery life, but will not save ANY of the power used by the touch screen while actually reading.
My idea would allow users to easily and quickly shift back and forth to a Kindle like "key-press-page-turn-only" mode that would still allow FULL USE OF THE READER, but with greatly extended battery life.
It's not something you would have to fiddle with every time you want to turn pages, because in the touch-turns-disabled mode, YOU WOULD JUST USE THE PAGE TURN BUTTONS, and would be no worse off than with readers like a Kobo or Kindle that lack touch screens.
It would be really nice to be able to switch modes if you happen to jump on airplane or cruse ship for a two week vacation, and realize that, although you remembered to load several books, YOU FORGOT THE CHARGER.
Having the OPTION to get 'Kindle like' battery life, with a 'Kindle like' key-press-page-turns would also highlight the fact that the Sony is not an 'inferior technology' when it comes to battery capacity, or power-saving design, it's just that having the luxury of doing touch-screen-swipe page-turns uses power that creates a slight but constant drain on the battery.
Lastly, I am only talking about an OPTION, that pin-heads who don't want to take the time to understand, and who don't mind charging their reader every three or four days, DON'T HAVE TO USE.
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