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Originally Posted by Peregrine
I guess this all comes down to how people hold books, which is obviously different, I find the setup great for how I use it anyway, just folding the front cover back behind the reader and holding it with my left hand puts my left thumb right on the buttons on the mid-left side. I do agree that there should be more options for the page buttons on different sides of the device so it could be a truly ergonomic, hold-anywhere device.
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Indeed, the way we hold books is obviously different. If I hold the Reader in my left hand so that the page buttons are under my thumb, it's top-heavy. And that puts extra strain on my wrist and fingers -- a
bad thing for those of us with carpal tunnel problems. By comparison, on the REB1100 (and also the 1150, I think) the page-turn buttons occupy 2/3 to 3/4 of the side of the device (dividing right in the middle). This means that the next-page button (the one you use the most!) is always under your thumb. And if you choose to hold the device by the bottom left corner (I never would, but maybe someone does
), you can reverse the meaning of the buttons so that the bottom one becomes "next page." (Of course, swap left for right on both hands and button-sides as needed -- something we can't do with the Sony.)
I do want to make sure that I'm clear about one thing, though. The difference in display quality is
SO LARGE that I'm not going back to the REB1100 -- it's going on eBay real-soon-now (unless someone here PMs me about it first).
Xenophon