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Originally Posted by tomsem
THe Disable touchscreen feature seems to be too crude. Why not just disable page turn gestures (swipe l/r, l/r tap zones - or maybe just the l/r tap zones) and still let you select words, highlight, bring up reading and navigation options? Isn’t the problem mostly that the thumb pressing page turn button slides over onto the screen and accidentally touches the tap zone, resulting in an accidental page turn? Just disabling the r/t tap zones would eliminate that problem.
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Just disabling page swiping would be useless to me. I put my hands on the screen. My fingers. I used to do that with paperbooks and with all non touch kindles. Many many times I highlight stuff I didn't mean too while reading. I don't notice as I an engrossed in the book. Now I can grab the O2 any which way I want. I can put my fingers on the line, or in the middle of the screen. I can wipe off some fuzz. And I can totally immerse into the book.
Yes, this won't work if you constantly highlight, search, look up stuff. i do that too at times, but I don't need to. And I don't always turn it off. Mainly when I have longer reading session of 30 minutes plus.
I suppose they could have made a multi step turnoff. Mabye that was just too complicated to implicate.