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Originally Posted by jocampo
I disagree and makes no sense to me.
You are assuming that all existing Kindle users want to get rid of the keyboard, which is not the case. . . .
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Absolutely, I am guessing that only about 95 percent of them would prefer a nice touch screen interface.
Assuming, that is, that all other things were equal.
Unfortunately, all other things are
not quite equal, because I don think the page turn buttons on the nook were handled as well as they could have been, and some Kindle owners who are in love with the Kindles large buttons will single this out.
Obviously B&N was trying to address another, less desirable, point about the Kindle's and earlier Nook's page turn buttons - that you often end up turning pages by accident when picking up the device - but I think that they went a bit too far in the opposite direction, and made the buttons a little harder to use than they should be.
B&N can address this easily by raising, lengthening, and widening the buttons by about 50%.
(and at the same time, I would also round their edges around the corners slightly, to match the overall styling and fashion sense of the Nook STR . . . but that's just me.
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. . . But, either way, even in it's present state, the Nook STR, with the Kindle App loaded, is damn sure a better Kindle, then the Kindle would be a Nook; BECAUSE, THE KINDLE IS NO KIND OF NOOK AT ALL. 