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Originally Posted by Nausicaa
Depends what you're reading. If you do mostly pleasure/story reading it's unimportant, information retention is not that important. When you read denser books you do double takes and reread pretty often. I hate the swipe motion, if I had buttons it would matter less, but the extremely slow refresh rates made it very bad and frustrating for rereading more technical books and the minuscule amount of information on the screen made it difficult to read a completely concept easily. PDF support is especially bad. I read 1 dense book on my kindle recently that took me 2months. I've read 3 in the last week and understood them, and am rereading that book and I'm already 10% complete or so it says after a day. It feels like 200lb when you need to go back to a page, swipe back several times and the pages aren't as dense as you'd like.
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As others have said, it's great that you have found what is best for you, but it's definitely not what is best for everyone.
When I'm reading on a non-button device I don't swipe, I just tap...if I had to swipe all of the time, I can see where it may get annoying after a while.
My e-ink readers are for relaxing and reading fiction or light non-fiction, such as biographies or memoirs. If I have to read a "dense" technical book I use either a computer or a tablet, especially since most books like that are best in PDF format (tables, diagrams and complex math formulas don't translate well to epub or any of the Kindle formats).
Shari