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Originally Posted by detayls
The perfect Kindle would be a Kindle non-touch that is still being sold WITH the Paperwhite back-light and restored touch system.
It would retain the physical Home button and the physical page left and right buttons. The touch screen would take care of all the other interactions.
I don't care if they put the Home button at the top or at the bottom.
Would you buy this hybrid for $99 with offers?
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You have described a Paperwhite with buttons added. I agree this would be a nice idea and some people would choose it. But I'm not sure why it would cost less than a Paperwhite without buttons? Now Amazon has the hardware costs of buttons AND the touchscreen layer in the same device. It's inconsequential if the touchscreen only controls some interactions and not others. In fact, if they made such a device, it should have a setting for whether or not you could turn pages by touch.
I had a Sony 650 and it had both touchscreen page turns and page turn buttons. I did use one or the other depending on how I was holding the device, and other factors. I just got a Paperwhite and so far I don't miss the buttons, but we'll see!
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