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Originally Posted by ShellShock
Still this fixation with touch screens. Why? They are more trouble than they're worth. I don't want to move my hands to swipe the screen for some poor virtual approximation of turning a page, when it is much simpler to keep my thumb on a page turn button, and to press it when necessary. I don't want to continuously have to wipe finger smears off a screen which I have to keep clean because I am trying to READ the damn thing.
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There are lots of benefits to a touch screen outside of a page swipe gesture. Fingerprint smears will be inevitable, but problems arising from them can be blamed more on incompatible surface finishing.
I'm sure there will remain options that retain button-centric operation much as the options today. Actually, I'd be kinda tickled to see a backside touchpad like on the Notion Ink Adam, though multi-touch would without a doubt be the ideal method of control for most things.
If you want crippled devices, they're already available.
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Originally Posted by maggie*
My thoughts exactly! I'm perfectly happy with what my READER does, it's made for that! Ok, maybe they can improve contrast (I'm happy with eink, but any improvement in that area is good), or the software or speed of response...
Everything else is not necessary for a reader, I don't need video, I don't need color for reading the equivalent of a paperback!
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If you're happy with what you have, then don't buy other products. What you have is
not good enough for a lot of people. Let them buy the touchscreen gizmos that you don't want, and you can sit happy with what you have.