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Originally Posted by Joykins
These are the reasons I opted for the non-touch--
I have a strong preference for page-turn buttons. I often eat while reading, so I'd rather not touch the reading screen itself with french fry fingers. I had also heard that the screen on the touch was a little slower to respond than the page-turn buttons, but was also easy to accidentally activate and jump around chapters/pages (my sister-in-law's had an issue with that on her touch; I presume sleeping it is a work-around but I'm not too crazy about having to do that either). I've already used a nook for a long time and found I don't enter text to the point where using the 5-way controller is an issue. I also know I'm a bit heavyhanded with a touchscreen, and that I'm never gonna use any of the audio features or games.
I also wanted the option for landscape reading and to be able to use the Calibre Kindle Collections plugin. The storage/battery time on the NT is not ideal, but I have no issues archiving stuff and recharging--what's on the NT is way, way better than my 1st gen nook (which I also plan to use until it dies, since it has books on it I still haven't read).
I wasn't dead-set against the touch but combine those things with the cheaper price, I'd say I'm happy with the non-touch so far. I used the extra money to get the cover and buy an ebook  |
Those are my reasons too. You really don't need all the extra storage space. The Kindle gets cranky when you put too many books on it anyway. You can always use Dropbox but better then that there is your Personal Documents Cloud 5GB where you can keep all your non amazon books there and retrieve them when needed. You don't need full space like the K3 or KT has.
With the new Send to Kindle program you can just send the documents to your PDC and not your Kindle.