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Originally Posted by HarryT
LOL  . I have to confess that when I got my Touch I assumed that it was indeed a speaker grill  . I was touching everything in sight on the screen and thinking "where the heck is the "Home" button?". |
Before I received mine, I thought it was IR sensor and thought,
"that would be a pretty bad idea to accidentally go back to the home screen all the time by swiping pass it!" 
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Originally Posted by ApK
Nonsense. You can hold the five-way down and do the look up with barely having to change your hand position. (I'm sure touch is somewhat more efficient for this, but not nearly so much as the far more applicable "back" example you are trying to refute.)
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It's as sensible(or nonsensical) as the examples I was comparing to, which is counting "taps". And no the "back" button is not always a 2-tap process(very rarely needed actually). I won't go into details to explain since anyone who owns & knows how to use a Touch would know what I'm talking about(not just someone who tried it in a store for 2 minutes).
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Originally Posted by ApK
Not ridiculous in the slightest. It is a step backwards to have to bring another hand into play to do what could previously be done one-handed, or to have to risk dirtying your screen to do common operations, or to need to use your eyes for what you could previously do by feel. Those factors may not be important to you, so it may not be a step back for you but to call it ridiculous seems to be a sign of either closed-mindedness or arrogance (I wouldn't presume to judge by guessing which.  ) |
That would be arrogance
**waning, incoming rants**
And who uses the Kindle to listen to MP3s anyway?!
(pretty sure I'll get flamed for this since I know some people actually do 
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It's bulkier than my Sony Walkman from the 90s, has only ~3GB of
combined & shared storage with your ebook/documents, and it's clumsy to operate(yes KK too!).
What about TTS you say? I used it once on mine, it made
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" sound as dull as a dishwasher. If you want to listen to a book, use Audible! It's like listening to a great musical performance when the narrator is good, it
enhances the book instead of destroying its flavors.
For all your audio needs, get a more suitable device like one of those! It has tons of features, weighs almost nothing, has 16GB of storage, and
much easier to use than any Kindle!
