You especially don’t want to have to do that every minute, every single time you read a book. On a bumpy subway ride, you don’t want to be delicately balancing a $180 object on your fingers while your thumb gropes for the “next page” touch zone. Off-balance: Going along with the speed problem: moving your thumb means lessening the strength of your grip on the Kindle. But with a touchscreen, you have to move your thumb from the bezel to the screen, then either tap or execute and even longer page-turn gesture by swiping. You don’t have to move your thumb laterally at all to turn a page you just apply a tiny amount of force. The old page-turn buttons are on the bezel around the screen, so your thumb falls naturally on them. But the touchscreen is also slower than a button. That’s one thing that’s not thought about in the transition from paper to E Ink: turning a page takes much longer than pressing the “next page” button. It’s slower: This is a nitpick, but this entire article is a nitpick about a product I really think is great, so, you know, onwards! It is slower to operate a touchscreen than to press a button. But having a touchscreen as the only option doesn’t make sense: why would you opt for a control scheme that’s great for the stuff you do rarely, and not great for the stuff you do all the time? It’s also much easier to type in the on-screen keyboard. The touchscreen is great for everything except for those two commands–it’s much faster to select items in a list, for example, by tapping what you want rather than pressing the “down” arrow past all the things you don’t want. That is wrong! It doesn’t mean Kindle is a bad product–it still rules–but it could rule more, and we want it to rule more.ĩ8% of your time with a Kindle is spent reading a book, rather than shopping or browsing or adjusting settings or whatever, which means the vast majority of your navigation is two commands: page-forward and page-back. But, Amazon’s flagship Kindle, now the Kindle Paperwhite, continues a trend that very much does not rule: forcing us all to use a touchscreen to navigate an ebook.
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