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Originally Posted by Giddeaon
I know that "touch screen" is all the rave in gadgetry.....but I hate the idea for an ereader. Maybe it's just the obsessive compulsive in me, but fingerprints all over my reading screen makes me want to scream. What is wrong with buttons? That's why I won't buy a Nook, regardless of whether they fix the slowness issues. I couldn't stand having a touchscreen interface that is constantly covered in fingerprints. I'd find that extremely distracting while reading. I would much rather see efforts spent making the Kindle form factor more similar to cell phones that have pop-out keyboards. This way the keyboard is hidden until needed which makes the unit smaller but still allows for easy control of searches and notating. Maybe that's stretching it, but I'd rather see those types of innovations than adding a fingerprint hoarding LCD that kills battery life.
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I obsessively wipe my screen and it isn't even a touch screen, so I really get where you are coming from! However, I love the idea of taking notes with a stylus, and I imagine the next reader I buy will have that sort of ability and also a larger screen (I really like the size of the DX screen). I was never into the habit of writing notes in novels so I thought that I really wouldn't need note-taking ability in my reader. Now I find that I do put a lot of stuff that I am translating onto my reader and some of it is in foreign script so a keyboard wouldn't cut it for note-taking. I write my translations in a notebook as I read off of the screen, but I would really like to be able to make a note here and there directly onto the text.