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Originally Posted by webroot
A quick googling on capacitive and IR touch technologies will tell you that IR is not so responsive and it require you to actually place fingers so that IR beams are obstructed whereas in capacitive can work with a slight gap and that has a "smooth touch" experience in a swipe gesture (between the two ends).
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Actually I find the exact opposite is true... you can flip a page on infrared touch without touching the glass at all, you just have to hover over the glass which can break the beam. So not even having to make contact with the glass certain is a "smooth touch." With capacitive touch, you have to actually touch the screen, there's no way to flip the page just hovering slightly above the screen. I can turn pages perfectly with a smooth swipe on my Sonys and Kobos that are infrared touch. The "smooth touch" swipe also works on capacitive (at least for others without my skin problems where capacitive just doesn't always work).
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Originally Posted by webroot
IR is used because its cheap. if it were good then tabs would have used them instead but perhaps eink will not be able to get any advantage from a capacitive owing to its own slowiness and  with the help of 64mb ram |
As I said before, I wouldn't ever use a reader with capacitive touch, it doesn't play nice with my skin, and I read a lot out in cold weather where I'd need various special gloves, an expense I'm not willing to bother with. Infrared touch works perfectly for me, and I can use any of my 15 pairs of gloves while reading without a problem. Whether or not it's cheaper to make isn't a concern to me at all, more expensive isn't always better.
Kindles use capacitive touch (I bought one because it was super cheap on sale and figured it would pay for itself for the free books available, I don't actually use it to read on), so if capacitive touch works better for you, buy a Kindle. I'll be pretty SOL if the day ever comes when all readers use capacitive touch, options are always good to have to satisfy everyone's needs. I'll buy a few spare infrared touch of my favorite reader at the time when that day comes.
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Originally Posted by webroot
well it may be that printed page turns take same time but the point is it do not provide any progressive tactile feedback or animation in case of eink page turning or changing windows creates irritation, when i am turning paper paper something is happening right? so that time is bearable.
in this forum i have seen some people who swipe before reaching end of the page so by the time they reach end page turn can begin.
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Why some are turning pages a bit sooner right now at least for Kobo is that the current firmware is a tad slower turning pages. I'm sure it will be corrected in future firmware, and I'm one that does it. But it's not unbearably slow; as others have said, it's still much faster than turning pages of a physical book. If you need instant gratification of seeing something visual going on for those brief microseconds, set the refresh to every page, those page turns are pretty instant for me still, but I prefer to set refresh to around 50.
Edited for clarification.