[ApK]

djgreedo,

Amazon has made three successful generations of Kindles with no touch and physical keyboards. This should tell you something about what their customers want.

I'm sure Amazon would take care with a touch UI, as I'm sure Sony and B&N took care, yet I frequently miss when trying to look up words on my Sony and we saw a new Nook STR video here where the rep doing the demo failed to get swipe to work half the time.

You don't need to click 9 times to get to the bottom of a Kindle screen list. Press down and hold. One motion, 2 seconds, no fingerprints.

I'm sure touch would make some stuff better. I'd like the option for many things, but for basic reading related navigation, the Kindle simply isn't as tedious or inefficient as you make it out. In many situations, owning both it and a touch reader myself, I can see how I'd still prefer it. I can totally get YOU and others not liking it's nav methods, but Kindle's success, the poll results here, and the owners comments are all testament to the fact that many of us do.

Apple iDevices have more than one button. They have one on the front, several more on the sides. Only rarely used for nav related stuff as I understand, usually sleep and volume.

Lastly, is your screen name said like "didgeridoo" like the musical instrument, or "DJ Greedo" like the green guy from Star Wars spinning records? Or....?


p.s. My enthusiasm for the Kindle is only SLIGHTLY diminished by the fact that after typing this whole thing on the freaking little keyboard, the browser just crashed on me and I had to come up to my desktop PC to rewrite it. GRR!