[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Actually, the touch screen is much easier to use than the buttons for page turns. Swiping to turn the page is more like turning the page of a pBook.

Question...When you read pBooks, did you complain about the page turn method?

I disagree. When turning the page of a book, I grab the entire corner between thumb and pointer finger (the second finger on your hand, sorry, don't know if that's the right word) and move the page from right to left, with an arc. I don't swipe the pages of my paper book, it won't work.

And yes, I complain about the page turn method of paper books. They always were a pain to do if your fingers were dirty or moist. You'd leave stains in your book (and I was taught to respect books, which means leaving them as nice as possible). On my BBMini I can turn pages even with a wet hand without being afraid to break my device...

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Also, page turns via a touch screen is overall more reliable than page turn via physical buttons. The buttons eill wear out long before the touch screen does.

On above mentioned Mini, the buttons are all still working perfectly. I think the battery will run out first.

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I swore up and down that I would never buy/use a reader that didn't have physical page turn buttons. I stomped my feet. I didn't want a touch screen. It would get all smudged. I was an a-hole to anybody who didn't recognize the superiority of the physical button (and the inherent grunge-factor of the touch screen). I LOVED those buttons.

Or so I thought.

I don't miss--or even think about--them any more. I picked up my old kindle and couldn't even imagine why I was so in love with those buttons.

Silly buttons.

Oh, and the touch-screen really is ridonkulously smudged up. I just don't see them any more unless I make it a point to (though I did religiously clean it at first).

It's a post-button world. I no longer fight it.

I do...

I got my mini: 3x 2 buttons to page (left, right and bottom!)
I got my Sony PRS650 (retired): 2 buttons
I got my Boox T68: buttons

Only my Windows tablet doesn't have the buttons because the ebook reading software on it doesn't support using the volume buttons.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I don't get oily residue on my H2O screen. I don't tap, I swipe. By swiping, there is less chance to leave a noticeable fingerprint on the screen. Stop tapping and get swiping.

Swiping is a huge annoyance, I prefer tapping.

Originally Posted by barryem

A lot of reasons are given in this thread and other threads for the demise of buttons and, reading through it, I suspect they're all partly true, but I also wonder if they miss the point. I don't have a bit of insight into what the designers of the various ereaders were thinking but my guess is that touch screens didn't replace buttons at all; that buttons went away because of touch screens.

Originally Posted by patrickt

I fully understand those who say they simply like buttons. Fine. That's what the argument is for buttons. Some people like them. There aren't enough of those people to keep Kindle and Nook and Kobo making ereaders with buttons.

What's wrong with both? Leave some buttons for those that want them and incorporate the touchscreen for those that want that.

Remember when cell phones had anywhere from 20 to 100 buttons. OMG, they're gone. My cell phone has two: a power switch and a toggle to move things up and down. Everything else is, gasp, touch screen.

I won't pick up a phone without a physical home button, and volume buttons.