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Old 01-29-2010, 08:56 AM   #6
WT Sharpe
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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington View Post
Keyboards are fine for multipurpose devices, but I don't see why a dedicated ereader device would need one. I never even had a keyboard for any of my Palm devices. Grafitti worked just fine once you learned how to use it.

Well after thinking about it, maybe students and people who might otherwise do research would want some sort of annotation capability. But I can't believe that the majority of recreational readers would need that sort of capability.
Even in my paperbacks and hardcover books I'm always underlining and making notes in the margins. I can't read a paper book without a pen and a highlighter in my hand.

For that reason, I find the keyboard buttons on my Kindle to be one of it's most useful features.
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