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Originally Posted by John F
That's fine, make it configurable, I'll bet you a $0.10 that most heavy readers that have fully functional appendages would not choose swipe. I'm not sure what a rocker switch is, but I look at a Kindle and get page turn envy (I have a 505).
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I hate the Kindle page turning. My first reader was a Kindle 1 and my second reader was a Kindle 2. My Kindle 1 is gathering dust somewhere in my nightstand and I gave the second to my Dad. My third and current reader is a PRS-600 and I absolutely love it, even with the glare issue in low light.
The Kindle 1 had a horrid page turn design with the huge buttons on both sides. I was constantly turning the pages by accident and frequently I would put it down and not realize one of the buttons was being pushed by something next to it on the table, and myself at the end of the book when I next picked it up. The Kindle 2's buttons were not convenient for my hand and I always found it uncomfortable.
I love swiping the PRS-600. Depending on how I'm situated I either hold and swipe with the same hand, using my thumb to swipe, or hold with one and swipe with the other. I don't find it intrusive to use 2 hands -- after all that's how I hold a pbook, use one to hold and the other to turn the page.
At first I hated it because Sony by default has the swipes set to what I consider the opposite of intuitive, but once I discovered I could switch the direction I was happy as a pig in feces. Well I also hated it because their software is a useless piece of crap, but then I discovered Calibre and all was good.
-Marcy