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Originally Posted by Ripplinger
Getting food particles in between the crevices of buttons is MUCH worse than just a bit on the glass which you can easily clean off. So that's not much of an argument for buttons.
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Buttons are generally fit tightly enough on ebook readers (those that still have them) that getting stuff in them isn't too much of a concern. Nor is getting crumbs and gunk on the screen, which is, as you say, easy to clean off. The problem is getting gunk and crumbs in the gap between the bezel and the screen (that has to be there for the IR sensors and light).
Those gaps are just wide enough to accept debris and have it jam itself in, but not wide enough to safely clean with anything that most people might have around the house (only thing I can get under mine are the tips of the smallest safety pins I have, for example).
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Originally Posted by taming
Kobo does that through Reading Life--it captures all sorts of things on Kobo's proprietary formatted books (kepubs) and phones home with it.
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Actually, it's not really related to Reading Life, which is only a small part of it. All that information (pretty much everything you do on the device, inside and outside of books) is collected in a database and sent to/run through Google Analytics every time you sync (at the very least - wouldn't be surprised to find it transferring every time you start a 'Net session of any sort)