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Old 09-19-2014, 04:37 PM   #340
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Originally Posted by thinkpad View Post
I don't know if this reader is for me, I still like the physical buttons on my K2. But I guess I could be pursuaded. I need to see some hands on user interaction, especially from this forum before I make up my mind.

Light sensor sounds like a gimmic that annoys more than it solves.
I have a couple of K4's (and had a K1, several K2's, several K3's....). I LIKE the side buttons (once they fixed the too-sensitive K1) cuz I alternate which hand is holding the reader. Read for 6-8 hours straight, and you have to change hands a bit! [I love to live in my ereader on weekends. Finished 10 Vorkosigan books in the last 21 days. Yeah, I guess I'm in the dedicated reader demographic.]

I think I'll go try out the kindle ereader on my iPad air, to see how much I hate the "touch screen to change page". If I set the brightness to quite dim, how does that compare to the "paperwhite" brightness? I've stuck with the original epaper due to very sensitive eyes. [On bad days I wear three pairs of sunglasses at a time to drive home.]

I was about to dive into the new $79 bottom end Kindle, but the lack of buttons may kill it for me. And the lack of dim e-ink might kill the Voyage for me. I'm not sure I can test a paperwhite long enough in a store to tell if it will hurt me, in long reading marathons.
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