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Originally Posted by richman
Yeah, it's just you! 
I don't get it, of course we all see things differently, that is a given, and if you were serious, and like the old fashioned way, read a paper book, RIGHT?! That is the old fashioned way!
Come on , some people have fingers that are in pain, (some of our members do complain about wrist and hand pain and find turning the pages on this device hard for long periods of time), or like to lay the ereader on table while they are eatting and can read a few pages with this interval method. In bookstore when reading, I like to lay 505 in lap and read a page and then look around and relax and then read another page, so internal turning would pace me and allow me to remember to LOOK at the WORLD too! It would have to have auto off feature after 10 or 50 or 100 pages, maybe something we could set.
Just because you find it a foolish idea, doesn't mean everyone would. Also feature could be useful at gym while on running machine or other equipment, frees up your hands. I would not use feature all the time, but under certain situations.
Gee, funny how when a nice IDEA gets made, it is first ridiculed , then accepted, and finally everybody says , of course we need this "feature".
I'm sure you were one of the people when you heard about ereaders said, "why an ebook reader, why not read books the old fashioned way".
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Excuse me, but your rebuttal sounds a bit personally hostile, but maybe
that's just me too. I never said your idea was foolish and it was never meant to ruffle your feathers. I did state that it was just
my opinion after all, and never said ANYONE else would feel the same way.
I'm one of those people you mentioned who has finger pain (arthritis) and I also read while on a stationary bike and treadmill and also sometimes while eating, and PERSONALLY have no problem at all putting my fork down for a second to push a page-turn button or continue eating while I push a button with the other hand. I have no fear I'll miss a bite of food or fall off the bike or treadmill by pushing said button.
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reading at the bookstore scenerio that you described sounded to be more of a reason to turn pages manually than automatically anyway. Pausing to LOOK at the WORLD while you read, as you described, seems like an act more conducive to spontaneity of a human nature rather than a programmed or timed nudging reminder to do so by a reading device.
But again, that's just me.
I'm sure an automatic page turn feature would be of great benefit to you and millions of others who, once a reality, won't know how they ever got along without it. I hope you won't have to wait too long before you get the feature you want.
No ridicule or hostility intended, but when turning a page becomes too cumbersome for me to do manually, I'll just go with audiobooks.
I apologize for getting you so riled up.