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Originally Posted by jocampo
While you and I may be speculating here, buttons increase the actual retail price of the unit. Major software and hardware changes are needed for that, resulting on millions of dollars of R&D and manufacturing cost.
I may be wrong, but lack of buttons on 3G/Touch devices may be cost related.
And again, the iPad is not a dedicated ereader, is a tablet, and LCD device not eink. I would not compare or justify the lack of page turn buttons using iPad as example, in my personal opinion.
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Having been extremely sceptical about the lack of buttons on the Kindle Touch, I have to admit that I'm now a convert. The Touch interface works extremely well, and for page turning all you need to is leave a finger on the edge of the bezel, and use a slight rolling motion to barely brush the screen in order to turn the page. It works exceptionally well.