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					Originally Posted by  DrNefario
					 
				 
				I would rather have physical buttons, myself. In fact, I want page forward and back on both sides of the device, like on many of the Kindles. Turning pages is often the only thing I want to do with the device, why waste battery life running a touchscreen the whole time? 
			
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 I suspect that the power usage of the IR touchscreen used by most of the current generation of readers, is utterly negligible compared to the overall power usage of the device.