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badgoodDeb · 04-14-2016, 01:27 PM

I finally convinced my mom to follow my lead, and upgrade from a buttoned kindle (the K4 ones) to a touch one -- because of the ability to touch a word and get a definition. We're both highly educated and don't *need* to look up words. And with the difficulty of doing so on the K4, we never did. But it's sooo easy on a touch screen, to just touch a word and get a definition, that I find myself taking the time to look up words much more often. I've spent years just knowing the general definition of a word from context. But it's so nice to take the time to actually learn!

Like, what the heck is a "deal table"? Oh! "deal" defn 2: fir or pine wood, especially when sawn into planks of a standard size. Never heard that before. But authors of the early 1900's (whoever I was reading at the time) used it commonly.

So, touch screens have some advantages! Which is to say, you might want to consider that, when deciding if any of the touch Kindles would be worth it.

04-14-2016, 01:27 PM	#13
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,555 Karma: 64462893 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	I finally convinced my mom to follow my lead, and upgrade from a buttoned kindle (the K4 ones) to a touch one -- because of the ability to touch a word and get a definition. We're both highly educated and don't need to look up words. And with the difficulty of doing so on the K4, we never did. But it's sooo easy on a touch screen, to just touch a word and get a definition, that I find myself taking the time to look up words much more often. I've spent years just knowing the general definition of a word from context. But it's so nice to take the time to actually learn! Like, what the heck is a "deal table"? Oh! "deal" defn 2: fir or pine wood, especially when sawn into planks of a standard size. Never heard that before. But authors of the early 1900's (whoever I was reading at the time) used it commonly. So, touch screens have some advantages! Which is to say, you might want to consider that, when deciding if any of the touch Kindles would be worth it.