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Originally Posted by Genjin
Thanks eschwartz, I know about the Voyage but I heard nothing good about the pressure buttons. Compared to proper buttons they seem to take longer to press and sometimes fail to register at all. I don't think the Voyage is a good fit for me.
As for the touch-screen, yes unfortunately it looks like it's becoming a standard. There have to be some models that consider the readers that don't want that gimmick and just read though? I have zero need for a touch screen and I definitely don't want it to get in the way because of accidental presses and it takes longer to do page turns than a physical button already resting under your thumb the way it does on the Kindle Keyboard. I don't totally hate it, it's useful to navigate the library for instance, but during reading it just gets in the way. Until a few days ago I thought the Kindle Keyboard is already overkill due to its keyboard, but I was really out of the loop on further developments and am still a little shocked on what happened with readers. To me it feels like they try to be like a Lite version of Tablets and I find that contrary to the purpose of a dedicate reading device and it's not how I want my reading experience to be like as well. If it comes down to it, all I really need is a good unlit ink display and buttons to go up, down, page turn and confirm - for anything else I'd use a actual tablet. It seems increasingly unlikely to find this to 100% satisfaction these days though. Is it just me, am I a weird dying breed of digital reader? They were perfect (to me) a few years ago, that's why I got myself the Kindle in the first place and never looked back. But now...
I'm still hopeful someone knows a fully satisfying model that isn't only available used on eBay though.
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Although I disagree with your analysis
I wouldn't call you weird... a number of other people have been through here looking for the same thing you are.
I personally find my Kindle very easy to read with the touchscreen, and don't suffer accidental page turns.
If you haven't tried one before, maybe give it a try? You could be pleasantly surprised...
If you are positive touchscreen ereaders are not for you, then you may be in for a search -- even the ones which do have pageturn buttons don't seem to offer the possibility of disabling the screen.
I imagine the best answer you are likely to get is along the lines of baf's work here:
http://www.fabiszewski.net/kindle-untouchable/
It would require installing third-party software on a device (with root access, that eliminates the Voyage unless you like hardware modding) to grab touch events and destroy them.