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Originally Posted by pidgeon92
For me? Yes. For lots of others? Yes.
I remember one of the biggest complaints about the first three Kindles was the keyboard. It was "ugly."
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I felt the same way about it except my first eink reader was the Sony PRS600. I now have the T1 and love it.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
As for actually using the physical keyboard ... all the time. Love it. I do a lot of proofing of the ebooks I create/fix, so it's very handy for me. I make notes of corrections that need to be made. No need to "call up" a virtual keyboard that covers an even larger chunk of the screen (keyboard + the text-box); just move the cursor and start typing.
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I also proof on my Sony Readers and find the on-screen keyboard works well for it. The original nook has a separate touchscreen/virtual keyboard, but I don't like having to manipulate a cursor on-screen to annotate/lookup words. It's much easier to directly highlight the word and annotate it.
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Originally Posted by Penforhire
Having used a few Sony touch models now, I'm sold on the touch interface. I do like having page turn buttons but I think I could live without them. I very much enjoy double-tapping a word to bring up the dictionary entry for it. If I had to write a bunch of annotations, like a student might, I'd prefer a real keyboard. But in my e-readers I value smaller size and lighter weight for the same screen size.
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This is exactly how I feel about my Sony's. I exclusively use the page turn buttons, but I guess I'd adapt if I
had to.
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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice
And if B&N didn't have such terrible policies about sequestering memory and how it treats side-loaded books as "documents" and only B&N purchases as "books", the Nook STR with glowlight might be more attractive.
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Amen. I don't like the way my wife's nook segregates books. I understand why they do it, but my Sony accomplishes the same thing. I remove the DRM and sideload all my books anyway.
Personally I think the Nook SimpleTouch is unattractive as well.