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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
Possibly. I know in the devices I've owned/tried I like having page turn buttons on the side of the device better than just a 5-way at the bottom.
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I should have been more clear that part of being a good 5-way button would include good placement and fully customizable. The Pocketbook 360 has its 5-way centered along a long screen edge. The Pocketbook can be held so that the button is on the right or the left for reading in portrait. For reading in landscape, the button would be on bottom or (unlikely) top. I think you would find that for landscape reading on the nicely symmetrical and balanced, keyboardless 360, the bottom location of the 5-way is just fine. For reading on the 360 in portrait or landscape, the 5-way renders dedicated page turn buttons absolutely superfluous.
A really nicely designed and well executed feature of the 360 for default and customized functions of the 5-way is that "right", "left", "up", and "down" rotate to match the text rendering. With both short and long press available, I can turn pages forward and back, follow and return from links, increase or decrease size, and several other things using only the 5-way.
Another aspect of good is none of the wobbliness or ambiguity of the Kindle 2 or DX. Don't know anything about the Kindle 3 5-way.