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Originally Posted by Fat Abe
I dislike screen taps for page turning because the software does not always respond to the tap or swipe, and fingers leave an oily residue on the screen. The failure rate of buttons has been greatly exaggerated.
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This has been my issue with page turns via a touch screen: It doesn't seem to be as reliable as it should be. On my Nook Color tapping/swiping the side of the screen usually causes it to turn the page but sometimes it causes it to zoom into the page or bring up the menu.
A tap or a finger swipe is fine with me as long as it is reliable. I think a way to improve reliability is to use the Kobo model where tapping the right and left sides (say within 1" from the screen's edge) of the screen turns the page, and only in that area.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
If you have a device you like, do you really want to ditch it because of a battery?
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I think it depends on the device. If a device has parts that will eventually wear out after a certain amount of time due to regular use, then a non-replaceable battery might provide a warning that the device is going to fail.
An example of this is the iPod Classic which contains a small hard drive. My figuring is that the battery is good for about 500 recharges and when the the battery no longer holds a sufficient charge the hard drive is due to fail soon anyway. This gives me a warning to replace the device before it actually fails.
However, for devices that have few parts that will wear out there should be the option to easily replace the battery. An example of this is my Handspring Visor. Despite being over 10 years old it still works, I only need to occasionally replace the batteries (two AAA batteries). Meanwhile, my other much-newer devices with non-replaceable batteries are no longer usable.