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Originally Posted by JSWolf
For those of you who say you would dislike a touch screen reader, I'd like to ask a few questions.
Have you tried IR touch?
If you have, what did you dislike?
What is it about a touch screen reader do you not like?
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First of all: when I touch something, I like the real "haptic" response. I am a touch typist and I stay away from all solutions that require looking at the keys while I am typing. The current capacitive screens as well as IR ones don't offer any haptic response, the best that they can do is offer vibration, which sort of imitates a real "touch" response. With old resistive screens I could somehow feel when I was touching the screen and felt sure when typing. Currently I have two phones, one with capacitive screen (Android by Samsung) and the other one with resistive (WM 6.5 by HTC). Writing a text message on the capacitive screen is for me a nightmare, whereas the resistive one (combined with extra haptic response through vibration) is OK. But in an e-reader a resistive screen would not work, as it needs a layer on top of the physical screen.
Incidentally, I got used to Grafitti system (on Palm OS), because I hardly needed to look at the characters I was writing. Current touch screens with software keyboards impede my writing. And why am I so obsessed with writing? Mostly, because when I am reading a book (mostly non-fiction) I annotate it quite a lot. I also like to use dictionaries and other reference works when I am reading, which obviously involves text searches. All in all, the touch screen without an efficient way of entering text is a step backwards for me.