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Originally Posted by mcooke66
Touching what you want to do will always test better for usability.
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Not necessarily. Human fingers (or at least, MY human fingers) are too big and clumsy to be able to accurately and reliably select text on a touch screen. On my Sony PRS-350 (which uses exactly the same kind of touch screen that both the new nook and Kobo devices have) I'm constantly ending up with the wrong word selected when I try to look up a word in the dictionary, and highlight text for the purposes of annotation. The Kindle's word selection cursor which you move around with a 5-way controller just works a lot better for me. A low-tech interface, yes, but it works WAY better for me.