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Originally Posted by Quelch
The Kobo Touch operates on an Infra Red detection system
A series of vertical and horizontal lines are beamed across the face of the screen, like graph paper
When a finger or stylus breaks the lines, it stops the transmitted infrared beam being picked up by the receiver on the opposite side which activates the firmware to complete the function such as page turn etc
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When it is described like that, I wonder if a shiny finger can reflect the beam back to a different receptor resulting in confusion for the device and as a result cause various effects that we label bugs.