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Old 10-07-2009, 03:52 PM   #43
Kent Walters
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Originally Posted by dlovely View Post
I disagree... For me the capacitive buttons give me a "click-free" experience and is one of the reasons I gladly returned the click-happy DX. I cannot personally concentrate with all the noise and prefer the silent capacitive buttons. I do agree though that the battery life is terrible at best and they chose the wrong size for the form factor.
I do not hear the clicks on my EZReader (Hanlin V3), I feel them; that provides positive feedback, for me, as I don’t have to wonder, even briefly, if my action has been registered. The DR offers no immediate feedback, and this has caused me to re-enter a ‘click,’ causing more annoying distractions. I don’t mean to suggest that your personal preference is wrong--that is a subjective matter (another user might prefer a trackball)--but from a design/engineering perspective, the costs, both in distractions and power consumption, far outweigh the benifits.

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