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Originally Posted by fantasyfan
The touchscreen on the iPod touch or iPad is great for games though it certainly does have the problem of leaving fingerprints. On the other hand, the Kindle is primarily a reading device and I'm not convinced that the touchscreen would add anything to the ease of operation. The five way cursor works fine and I find the reading experience on the Kindle to be superior. I do use the iPad as a supplementary e-reader, and for that it is fine.
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There's at least one advantage with a touchscreen: you save space. i.e. you can have a screen with the same real estate in a smaller kindle.
I would like to have a kindle the size (and weight) of the Sony PRS350 (but with WiFi, and of course with the Amazon book shopping experience