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brecklundin · 07-14-2009, 06:35 AM

very nice Zelda!! great scoop for us here....thanks to all who were there to grill the Bookeen folk.

Question, I know ya did not get a lot of hands on time with the device so if ya dunno, eh, oh well, we will know soon enough. But I am a bit interested in two things. First the trend toward moving the nav control over to the right side of the device. It just "feels" weird to me for a couple reasons one is I hold books in my left hand and I also use my PDA's in my left hand so I am probably conditioned to it...my right hand is more problematic for me to use on a device such as thing. Anyway, how does it feel to you to use it in your right now left hand? Then again I forget if you mentioned over the past couple years if you were a left handed or right handed reader?

And yeah, I realize there is the accelerometer which makes it almost, but not exactly, a moot point.

It is that accelerometer that forms the basis for my next question. In the brief time you had with it, if you tried it "upside down" with the controls on the top and logo on the bottom, was that arrangement at all distracting or did you find it transparent enough to sense you could adjust to it? Of course this may not be answerable if ya handle the device differently than I would.

These are the form factors I am looking forward to seeing in the next 4-5 months. If I could find a nice small grab-n-go device like this I would be very happy. But to be honest with this one, based purely visually observing the photos as well as the videos, the control layout is not to my liking. Purely personal in that regard and comes with knowing my needs and preferences/conditioning/physical limitations.

If ya din't have enough time with it to pass along the info or if I missed it reading in the thread...cool & d'oh!! respectively....

PS: ummmmm....I do not believe 'ergonomy' is actually a real word...ergonomics or ergonomic, yes, ergonomy, ummm...not as far as I know...please don't smack me too hard for asking that part? hehehehe....still I LIKE IT...it sounds so Rev. Jessie Jackson...

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brecklundin Banned Posts: 1,906 Karma: 15348 Join Date: Jun 2007 Device: mine	very nice Zelda!! great scoop for us here....thanks to all who were there to grill the Bookeen folk. Question, I know ya did not get a lot of hands on time with the device so if ya dunno, eh, oh well, we will know soon enough. But I am a bit interested in two things. First the trend toward moving the nav control over to the right side of the device. It just "feels" weird to me for a couple reasons one is I hold books in my left hand and I also use my PDA's in my left hand so I am probably conditioned to it...my right hand is more problematic for me to use on a device such as thing. Anyway, how does it feel to you to use it in your right now left hand? Then again I forget if you mentioned over the past couple years if you were a left handed or right handed reader? And yeah, I realize there is the accelerometer which makes it almost, but not exactly, a moot point. It is that accelerometer that forms the basis for my next question. In the brief time you had with it, if you tried it "upside down" with the controls on the top and logo on the bottom, was that arrangement at all distracting or did you find it transparent enough to sense you could adjust to it? Of course this may not be answerable if ya handle the device differently than I would. These are the form factors I am looking forward to seeing in the next 4-5 months. If I could find a nice small grab-n-go device like this I would be very happy. But to be honest with this one, based purely visually observing the photos as well as the videos, the control layout is not to my liking. Purely personal in that regard and comes with knowing my needs and preferences/conditioning/physical limitations. If ya din't have enough time with it to pass along the info or if I missed it reading in the thread...cool & d'oh!! respectively.... PS: ummmmm....I do not believe 'ergonomy' is actually a real word...ergonomics or ergonomic, yes, ergonomy, ummm...not as far as I know...please don't smack me too hard for asking that part? hehehehe....still I LIKE IT...it sounds so Rev. Jessie Jackson...