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Originally Posted by knc1
Yes, it is.
'Reset' and 'Restart' are adjacent menu choices on the setting dropdown menu.
A little bit of finger shake, a slightly too sensitive touch screen and approaching 'Restart' from the 'Reset' side of the menu ...
Yup - all to easy - people should stick with holding the power button pressed and picking 'Restart' from that pop-up panel.
But the IG (instant gratification) generation has trouble "wasting" the 7 seconds it takes for the pop-up panel to appear.
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And to make folks even more confused, the little button in the "paperclip port" on my K1, which "restarts" the device, is clearly labelled RESET (as are the missing switch contacts inside the paperwhite models). In fact, the button that restarts most devices is labelled "RESET". And the word "restart" has an alternate meaning in many environments; restarting a project means you scrap everything and begin anew, just like a "factory reset".
Restart/reset, interchangeable meanings depending on context. They should be in completely different menus, not adjacent where they can be "fat-fingered", and with plenty of sufficient warning before destroying user settings.
The current placement and wording was clearly not thought out as well as it could be -- perhaps they can make it safer is a future firmware update? For me, "factory erase" seems better than "factory reset". Or for modern computer-literate folks, perhaps "format device"? But perhaps "format" might confuse publishing folks? Yeah, "erase" is safer...
English has confusing syntax and grammar -- just consider "inflammable" and "invaluable" (synonyms of "valuable" and "flammable") compared to "insane" and "incompetent" (antonyms of "sane" and "competent"). And with English become a world-wide common language, who know what such confusion may cause in the future.
EDIT: Not just dissimilar meanings of similar words, but similar spellings of dissimilar words as well. Of course, American English has simplified many of these words, but Ye Olde English spellings are still used from time to time as well: "A rough, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman emerged from a slough to walk through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing." ESL catatasrophe in the making?
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