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Originally Posted by Phogg
So an integral part of the rebuttal to my point was that side buttons are difficult to use for page turns... on a device with a ten and a half inch screen?
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No, the "integral part of the rebuttal" is that
an eReader is NOT a tablet OR a smartphone. They tend to be designed in different ways, used in different ways, have differing ergonomics, and differing likely points of failure.
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Is there any possibility that you could become convinced that some people hold six inch screen divides one handed, and that page turns with side buttons only require a slight tightening of their grip?
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I hold my 6" eReader one handed. I cradle it with my thumb on the right, my next three fingers on the left, and my pinky at the bottom. Yes,
if the page turn buttons were on the middle of the side, I might be able to turn them with only "a slight tightening of their grip", with the buttons towards the top of the sides (and who holds an eReader near the top), not so much.
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Clearly there is a level of differences between your perception and my perception that is rooted at the very basic level of how we hold the devices in question.
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Yes, you seem to 'perceive' my having mere
question marks over an unfamiliar and unorthodox page turn button arrangement as some form of
blasphemy. The Kepler Pro
will most likely be my next eReader, but I
will read any reviews available for commentary on the page turn buttons first. I was looking quite seriously at the PB Ultra when it first came out, but my enthusiasm quickly dissipated when I read reviews that were less-than-enthusiastic about
its unfamiliar and unorthodox page turn button arrangement.