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Originally Posted by HarryT
Yes, I have a Sony PRS-350 with an IR touch screen. What I don't like is that I have fat fingers and find the touch screen to be much less accurate than the Kindle's 5-way controller when it comes to such things as text selection or looking up a word in the dictionary. Sure, there are things it's better for: opening a book, for example, is much easier. But overall I much prefer the Kindle's physical keyboard and 5-way controller.
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Sony's touchscreens seem to be tuned more for stylus use than fingertip use. (I had the 350 and 950). Fingertip selection rarely worked whereas using the stylus or a fingernail usually did. The Kobo Touch I tried out for a couple of weeks was the opposite--it would not work at all with the Sony 350 stylus but did okay with the fingertip. But both the Sonys and Kobo, though the same technology just fine tuned differently, were not as responsive nor as fast as using my K3 keyboard and 5-way controller in most instances. Plus one drawback to the IR touchscreens is that any small object or even a fold of material from your shirt can cause the pages to start turning, so you have to keep them free of debris.
Now to each her or his own, but I personally find it a distraction to have to swipe or touch the screen to turn pages. I prefer well situated page buttons like on the K3. Sony placed their page buttons in a terrible location unless you are reading in landscape and left handed. Kobo chose to not have page buttons. But buttons are what I like even if 99% of other people don't.
I would like to see a better 5-way controller and a better location for same and I want my number keys back as ALT + QWERTYUIOP is a pain.