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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I've had a Kobo Aura H2O until the Libra 2 came out. No buttons wasn't a disaster. It was actually quite nice. With the Libra 2, I don't use the buttons. On my touch screen Sony Readers, I never used the buttons.
The only time i used the buttons was when there wasn't a touch screen.
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I'd rather have buttons than a touch screen. As many buttons as possible. The only downside to having no touch screen on my Kindle 2 was that it was a bit more cumbersome to look up words in the dictionary. But otherwise having a keyboard and no touch screen was perfect for me. (And it also made the screen much sharper since it lacked the touch layer.)
Nowadays there's even the possibility to combine buttons with wacom and use a wacom pen instead of your finger to navigate (see the Hanvon N10).
I'm all for sharp screens, contrast and efficiency of use. I don't care about thinness, form factor and some black brick aesthetics. I think the early Kindles looked better than modern ones anyway.