It's so easy for me to lose perspective...

[filmo]

Sony only turns page with horizontal or vertical swipe which are not easily confused with long or short touches. I think part of Kobo poor touch to turn page response is preventing double page turns with touch just long enough while not too long or short. Only problem I have with Sony swipe to turn page is sometimes it somehow registers as pinch zoom causing a loop of 3 or more pages. This shows all e-readers have their own interface glitches. (avoiding calling it a B--)

[speakingtohe]

Originally Posted by filmo

Sony only turns page with horizontal or vertical swipe which are not easily confused with long or short touches. I think part of Kobo poor touch to turn page response is preventing double page turns with touch just long enough while not too long or short. Only problem I have with Sony swipe to turn page is sometimes it somehow registers as pinch zoom causing a loop of 3 or more pages. This shows all e-readers have their own interface glitches. (avoiding calling it a B--)

I frequently get double page turns on the mini and backward instead of forward, or three blinking screens and no movement. The Aura is better

Helen

[rayhigh]

Weird. I've never had a problem with the Aura and page turn swipes. Perhaps I naturally press a little harder.

[Ripplinger]

The system is infrared beams, so pressing harder wouldn't make any difference.

Swipes on the Sony work with the slightest thumb movement, and it even works if you brush the screen diagonally, nothing even close to a horizontal swipe. The Kobo seems to need specific horizontal swipes for me and longer in length before it triggers a page turn.

[TechniSol]

Did you ever consider that was to minimize and filter undesired input? Bugs cause your Sony to change pages, do you also consider that correct behavior for a device not designed to operate only inside a mosquito netting? :-)

I think you need to adapt a bit. Somewhere between a short tap and a long press exists the Kobo page turning tap sweet spot. Possibly more elusive than the Grafenburg spot for many...

[speakingtohe]

Originally Posted by rayhigh

Weird. I've never had a problem with the Aura and page turn swipes. Perhaps I naturally press a little harder.

I have very little problems with the Aura as I said, but the Mini is pretty erratic.

My main problem with the Aura is the larger bezel makes it harder to tap or swipe onehanedly in the right spot.

Helen

[speakingtohe]

Originally Posted by TechniSol

Did you ever consider that was to minimize and filter undesired input? Bugs cause your Sony to change pages, do you also consider that correct behavior for a device not designed to operate only inside a mosquito netting? :-)

I think you need to adapt a bit. Somewhere between a short tap and a long press exists the Kobo page turning tap sweet spot. Possibly more elusive than the Grafenburg spot for many...

Bugs can change pages on the Mini too as can an unmoving small blob of ketchup, although the ketchup seems to stop page turning more often than not. The Sony seems to have a higher ketchup tolerance in my experience, and I am a woman who doesn't ask if ketchup will go good with my food, I as will this food go good with ketchup.

Helen

[TechniSol]

Heh, heh. I had the funniest mental image of a bunch of engineers from Neonode in a lab trying different condiments on a Kobo ereader and taking bets on whether A1 steak sauce passed more IR than Hunt's or Heinz 57...

Originally Posted by speakingtohe

Bugs can change pages on the Mini too as can an unmoving small blob of ketchup, although the ketchup seems to stop page turning more often than not. The Sony seems to have a higher ketchup tolerance in my experience, and I am a woman who doesn't ask if ketchup will go good with my food, I as will this food go good with ketchup.

Erm, may I suggest keeping your ereader clean. I'm trying to refrain from judging you based upon that, but I'm the type of person who wipes the slop off my lips after a fraction of a second of nibbling. I just cannot imagine keeping ketchup on an ereader for anything longer than a fraction of a fraction of a second!

[speakingtohe]

Originally Posted by BWinmill

Erm, may I suggest keeping your ereader clean. I'm trying to refrain from judging you based upon that, but I'm the type of person who wipes the slop off my lips after a fraction of a second of nibbling. I just cannot imagine keeping ketchup on an ereader for anything longer than a fraction of a fraction of a second!

Haha. Obviously I am not. But I do bathe regularly and try not to let my lips get too sloppy. And I always have a fresh clean ereader handy if the ketchup gets too thick. So judge away if it makes you happy

Helen

[aceflor]

Originally Posted by speakingtohe

Haha. Obviously I am not. But I do bathe regularly and try not to let my lips get too sloppy. And I always have a fresh clean ereader handy if the ketchup gets too thick. So judge away if it makes you happy

Helen

Don't worry.. I am into peanut butter myself

[Ripplinger]

Originally Posted by TechniSol

Did you ever consider that was to minimize and filter undesired input? Bugs cause your Sony to change pages, do you also consider that correct behavior for a device not designed to operate only inside a mosquito netting? :-)

I think you need to adapt a bit. Somewhere between a short tap and a long press exists the Kobo page turning tap sweet spot. Possibly more elusive than the Grafenburg spot for many...

The number of times it happens that a bug might land on my screen and change my page on the Sony out of my total reading time, 0.0001%.

The number of times it takes me 2-4 swipes to turn the page on the Kobo, 50% of the time.

I'll choose the device where a bug can turn a page and the rest of the time I can use the slightest thumb movement on the first try. Yes, I adapt to the Kobo because I love the light, but page turns are still unresponsive and slow compared to the Sony and I really don't see a reason for it.

So if Kobo intentionally did that to prevent the occasional bug turning a page, they overdid something and not for the better.

[meeera]

Originally Posted by Ripplinger

The number of times it takes me 2-4 swipes to turn the page on the Kobo, 50% of the time.

If you're confident that you've tried a variety of different lengths & locations of press/types of swipe and you're still getting this problem on 50% of page turns, there is something very wrong with your Kobo. Have you tried a full reset just to see if that helps? Is it under warranty?

[Ripplinger]

It's only about 2 months old, and I thought of that too, but taps works pretty well. It's just swipes that don't work consistently. I've had to do a factory reset once and that didn't help the swiping issue at all.

I'd really hate to try and go through a return for this issue, I really don't think I'd get anywhere with it considering their customer service.

[treadlightly]

Originally Posted by aceflor

Don't worry.. I am into peanut butter myself

I keep forgetting that when you peel an orange there is a fine mist released. Then I wonder why my ereader has glitter all over it. At least it smells nice.