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Originally Posted by brecklundin
very nice Zelda!! great scoop for us here....thanks to all who were there to grill the Bookeen folk.  |
yes, it was a very interesting evening !
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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.
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i am right handed but i like to switch back and forth when reading depending on my position. my first liseuse was an eb1150 with big buttons placed similarly to the opus page-turning buttons (although by default on the left) and the possibility to rotate the display so you could use it with either hand, and this to me is the most comfortable hardware configuration. so, using the opus in my right hand doesn't feel uncomfortable to me at all, and i think if you get the chance to try it you'll find the same. it's really a very comfortable position and the opus is so light (startlingly so ! it really weighs almost nothing) that i could easily imagine using it for hours at a time (obviously i didn't do that during the apéro ; it was mostly a case of "play with it a few minutes, then pass it to someone else so they can play with it a few minutes, then pass it on..."
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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.
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well, again, being used to the eb1150, that doesn't bother me at all. i think really you'll discover that while you're reading, you quickly forget about the control buttons, whether on the bottom or on the top.
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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.
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hm, i don't know what your needs are, of course, and you're right that to some degree these are personal preferences. but i am really impressed by the opus. it seems like just the kind of device you could have always with you ; very small, very light. and the button placement seems really good to me. but then, i have been waiting for someone to learn the lesson from the eb1150 for a long time now.
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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....
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no worries !
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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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ah, isn't it ? in french it's "ergonomie" i just thought it would translate with the typical modification of the ending... hm, my dictionary agrees with you and says i should say "ergonomics".
i'll try to remember that in future.