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While I can appreciate some of the conveniences that touchscreens offer, my reason for preferring physical buttons is not "oh my goodness I have to move my thumb, whatEVER shall I do?", it is similar to the reasons Piper stated above, I find myself having less "accidental" page turning or misapplied commands.
My hands aren't even particularly shaky, but traveling on Transit or being a passenger somewhere, (with portability being one of the selling points of e-readers), it differs from just lying on the couch still where I control the movements. I get a little bit better control.
I also like to read in bed, and many is the time that I've fallen asleep and woken up with my e-reader, having brushed against the blanket, turn it on from the sleep mode - open to books I didn't even select and "remembering" chapters I didn't read, but apparently the blanket or whatever it touched as I dropped it in the covers, did. Not so with my Kindle 4.
The fact that it is MORE work to turn a page is a bonus for me. Touch screens aren't for everyone, and I can appreciate that buttons aren't for everyone too.
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