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Originally Posted by Namekuseijin
ah, a child of the ebook generation!
who never touched on paper;
reading, eager to hard press buttons on
until stuck, returning to maker
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Hardly.
I cut my metaphorical tech teeth on a Bowmar brain.
I've been buying ebook devices since the Palm Pilot days.
I just happen to be a stickler for ergonomics and immersion.
Conversely, I find it perverse to see so much wasted effort trying to turn genuine digital devices and files into imitation paper and in the process degrade a naturally immersive experience.
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I couldn't agree more! Just because you have to move your hand in some sort of swiping motion for paper books, does that mean you have to do the same for an electronic book?
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Originally Posted by SCION
Will not even consider buying if it's only available in white. Thank goodness the Kobo offers a black model. I would've had to pass. Funny because I prefer the iPad 2 in white.  |
Forgot that one. Hate white devices...
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Originally Posted by NNolan
I'll never buy another ereader that doesn't have a touchscreen.
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A touchscreen is handy, but mostly because I like to highlight. If I can do that with some kind of navigational buttons, I could live with that too.
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Originally Posted by Namekuseijin
I can't stand cheap emulation of pbooks either. Still, while touchcreens can do marvels to scroll or flip pages, you can also merely press right or left to "turn" pages...
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And that can horribly interfere with highlighting... Mobipocket has that option. I turned it off asap, because it either turned the page when I wanted to highlight a word that was close to the margin, or highlight a word when I wanted to page...