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Originally Posted by SteveDuck
Toddos: Thanks for the detailed input.
I wonder if this design renders the new nook subject to false input from other sources of beam interference such as grains of sand and bits of hair which land on the screen. Took the nook to the barber, then the beach...with no protection. I had a few bits of debris collect on the margins of the screen & experienced a couple "random" page turns.
Once I cleared the screen, it behaved well.
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It's surely possible, but it seems like they've built some de-sensitivity into it. This was an issue that people had with the latest Sony touch screens, to the point where one person had the page turn simply because a fruit fly landed on the screen. I've poked around at my STR with a few random household objects, and it seems that if the "touch" area is significantly less than the size of a finger the Nook ignores it. So the sharpened tip of a pencil probably won't work (because the STR ignores it), but the unsharpened tip or the eraser end should.