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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I wonder how much the Kindle would actually cost if Amazon added in a touchscreen and a frontlight. I bet it would go over the $400 price mark. So Amazon's saying that the 700 is too expensive is crazy. Look at all the people who purchased the Kindle before the price dropped.
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I was willing to spend $400 when the Sony 505 was a lot less to get things like search, annotation and dictionary look up. This hardware seems quite worth the price to me. Sure, we'd all like them to be $99 but that's just not going to happen for awhile.
As for the page buttons, I do prefer having them on both sides, but I'm right handed and usually hold my Kindle with my left hand. So does my husband. Still, it's not fair to leave the lefties out in the cold. I would hope by now they'd look at all the popular hacks out there and start integrating some of them, like programmable buttons. However, while I like a left-side button, I don't hold at the bottom, so that wouldn't be an ideal place for me. I think it's hard to find a button layout that works for everyone. I find the Kindle highly ergonomic. My husband has adjusted to his but naturally holds his books even higher up than I do. It's less than ideal for him. I think with any device you use a lot, you do adjust and you end up working it without even thinking about it after awhile.