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Originally Posted by abookreader
I really, really love that Kindle Keyboard.
I tried it out. My objections pretty much what I thought they would be. I just don't much like reading with touch screen devices. I accidentally turn pages. I accidentally skip to the next chapter. I want a page turn button to rest my finger on. I try to adjust the font and I end up highlighting words and looking them up in the dictionary instead. Mostly, I'm hopeless.
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I couldn't agree more, though I believe it's the device itself that's hopeless. I just returned my KT tonight after a thorough two week trial period. I was a bit quick in passing along my old KK 3G to my son though and I'm now waiting for a brand new KK 3G to arrive Monday.
I believe that most people who regularly use the KK 3G to its fullest extent (music, audiobooks, text-to-speech, 3G) will be at least a little disappointed with the KT, if not completely disheartened at the prospect of the Kindle's future.
The KT speakers are a far cry from the KK, there is no easy way to enable background music while reading a book, no means of adjusting the volume once the screen has gone into standby and of course the 3G has been grossly restricted. If you enable TTS it kills the MP3 player which then has to be reloaded through Home > Menu > Experimental > MP3 Player > Play (that's 4 screens and at least 5 taps vs. pressing Alt+Space)
In fact, just about everything you could do at the press of a button (or key) now requires two, three or even more taps to accomplish. The power button is perhaps the most user-unfriendly revision of all; it switched off constantly on my morning bus commutes. It's as if they didn't even test the device in real-world settings.
Add to that the flaky touchscreen...my device had about a 70% success rate for button taps (volume up/down, next track, page turn, etc.) and because it's e-ink I often sat waiting for something to happen before realizing the tap didn't register; at other times it registered events twice.
I won't even bother commenting on the new lighted cases.
Such a disappointment; plain and simple.