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I had a Nokia phone with a touchscreen and a separate keyboard some years back. It had a stylus for the screen but I was always leaving the stylus around and really thought it was fiddly.
I don't like the thought of a touch-screen ereader much because I just know that with a whole lot of touch functions I'd manage to keep navigating out of my page without meaning to. And in any case I just use my K3 for reading books. I don't browse with it. I only switch wireless on to download books I've already bought via my computer and then I switch it off again. I don't play games on it. I don't look up dictionaries. I occasionally bookmark places for reference, but that's about the only function I use apart from page turning. I'm another one-handed reader and I don't want anything that makes me use two when I'm reading. When I get a new book I put it in a collection. That's something I do use two hands for, but it's different from needing two hands when in the middle of a book.
Since I like simplicity, the K3 is OK for me and I'd rather not have touch. But then in my experience simple technology is always eventually messed up with extra bells and whistles that in my eyes are malfeatures. So I expect Kindles will get touch + buttons and all sorts of other things that I simply don't need for reading enjoyment.
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