Thread: Speculation thread: How will Amazon react to new Nook and Kobo?
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Old 05-29-2011, 06:25 AM   #99
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Touch screens make it harder, not easier, to do things like accurately highlight text and look words up in a dictionary. On my touch-screen Sony PRS-350 I'm constantly getting the wrong word selected when I tap the screen - it's just nowhere near as accurate as the Kindle's selection cursor.

Plus the fact that I can't stand reading from a screen that has fingerprints all over it.
Exactly!
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