Wow, I guess Amazon put a lot more thought in the Kindle 4 non-touch model and the Kindle Fire than they did in the Kindle Touch. Glad I didn't buy one.

I think the lack of a landscape mode is foolish since all previous models and all other current models have that option. NEVER take away functionality!

Also I'm not too thrilled that they did away with the progress bar across the bottom. Even the Fire still has that, though it is not nearly as informative as the ones on the E Ink models. How else can you tell where you are in a section/chapter? BTW, On the E Ink models the bar shows section/chapter divisions and distance read during current reading session, but the Fire merely has a total progress indication bar.

Oh well I was skeptical to begin with. I previously owned three different E Ink touchscreens (2 from Sony and 1 from Kobo). But the lag time of E Ink screens just never seems to work that well with a touchscreen.