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Originally Posted by HansTWN
why would you want hold the Sony without a cover? A cover is included, the cold metal doesn't feel so nice. You hold it like a regular book, either left thumb on the turn page button below left or right thumb on the turn page button at the right hand side. Depends on the exact position I am holding it. Well thought out and convenient, at least for some of us humans! With the added ergonomic advantage, that the eyes remain fixed on the same side of the "book".
The justification issue for EPub is a small irritation, but we are not talking a major issue here.
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Don't especially care for the cover. Same basic reason I don't keep a cover on my cell phone or on my mp3 player. It irritates me as much as it helps compensate for the ergonomic shortcomings of the device itself.
And frankly from an ergonomic design standpoint, the Sony Readers are terrible. Comfort is not one of Sony's goals, and likely never will be. It is usable, but that's about as far as it goes. Perhaps I'm just snobby about that because of my own background with design/ergonomics, but it's pretty clear that Sony's design leaves out the human element for the most part. It's not surprising really, since that's how almost all their products are, excepting designs they retain from companies they absorb (like Konica Minolta).
That said...design in the ebook reader field has been a nightmare pretty much from the beginning, with some slightly bulky/oversized exceptions from earlier days as DixieGal mentioned.... It makes me wonder how much money the big companies are saving by skimping out on human interface design. Or perhaps they've just accepted that flash over substance will always generate more profits.