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@Sweetpea - They might be "resistive" and an improvement over earlier devices, but your screen will inevitably get coated. And your later comments about dirty hands just validates the point. I don't just read in a clean vacuum, my ereader goes everywhere. I read while eating, while on the tube, walking around, wherever I have time to kill, with extremes of hot and cold. My Kindle is always in the lighted cover so the screen is never touched, I've only had to clean it twice in over a year of usage from accidental contact.
Unlike say my iPad which after a few hours use mandatorily requires cleaning. If you sit in an office environment with fluorescent lights above and try to read, any screen discoloration gets magnified no matter what the technology. Better to not have a reason to touch the screen in the first place.
Thanks for the correction on the gloves thing though, I did make an "assumption" based on every other touch-screen device I own not working at all with gloves on. I still don't know how well it would work if your gloves are bulky - the margin for error with a big page turn button versus accidentally invoking some other on-screen function seems higher to me but you have the practical experience.
I was almost tempted by the new entry-level Kindle (non-touch) - as has page turn buttons, and is smaller. But given the screen is no better (debatably worse depending on manufacturing variation) and it has less capacity it just wasn't compelling enough to splash out for another lighted cover for. We'll see what Amazon comes up with in the next gen...
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