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Originally Posted by unkilbeeg

Almost. It's a touchscreen though, which reduces some of the advantages of Pearl.

The assumption you've made is wrong. This is not a resistive touch screen like on the old Sony readers, where there's another layer over the top of the eInk screen that cuts contrast and makes things slightly blurry. It's IR-based touch like on the new Sony readers and on the new Kobo (or the first generation Microsoft Surface table, even), where there's no extra layer over the screen. Instead, there are IR transmitters and receivers along all four sides of the screen bezel that can accurately track where you're "touching" by figuring out what IR beams your finger (or stylus, or carrot) is occluding. Technically you shouldn't even need to actually touch the screen to use it.