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Originally Posted by GreenMonkey
I'm not interested in moving my hand from the bezel to the screen to swipe and back again. Waste of motion.
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Page turning is only one aspect of controlling an ereader. My old Sony reader had page turn buttons AND touch-swipe page turns. I found both useful at different times.
I think Amazon would be insane to not put touch controls on the next Kindle. So many things work better with touch: footnotes, hyperlinks, menus, word lookup, etc.
But I also think they'd be insane to not keep some buttons, especially to turn pages.
It's inevitable that any change in the Kindle form factor will alienate some users, but the current Kindle device is such a pain to use for anything but reading and turning pages.
I'd like to see some data that shows how much typing Kindle users actually do on the keyboard. For me it's just an ugly bunch of buttons that get under my fingers when I'm trying to read.