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When I originally posted I had not even considered the disabilities issues but they are a good point and major concern for many people with our aging population and those with physical disabilities. My 91 year old neighbor has a touch screen Windows portable computer and hates it and he is still quite physically capable in most respects. At age 75 I am no spring chicken either. Also in the very low humidity climate I live in a capacitive touch screen can be a PITA at times. I have seen Kobos with poor alignment between display and sensor points too, making keyboard use frustrating as hell. The original Kindle Touch infrared was better.
Fortunately the Kindle NT is still available (I have multiple units) as is the Kindle keyboard, both for reasonable prices last time I checked. I have not heard of download issues with the NT yet. For those who want a epub compatible reader for side loading books the Sony T series and the 350, 650 and 950 are still around and I have all of them with still decent batteries. Their UI that combined bottom buttons and infrared touchscreen was excellent IMO.
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