Another omission is the lack of
hardware page buttons.
Not exact matches
The addition of
hardware buttons, along with a 6 - inch Pearl e-ink display, means turning
pages is a breeze, while the 2 GB of storage along with Micro-SD expansion is ample room for your books.
Tremendous
hardware design Front - light is one of the best in the world You can install your own apps with Android Physical
page turn
buttons
Of the touch readers, only the Nook has
hardware page - turn
buttons that you can optionally use, but they're uncomfortable to use because they require too much pressure.
My ideal e-reader would have a touch screen as responsive as the Nook's and good
hardware page - turn
buttons, but that doesn't exist today.
I wish they all had good
page - turn
buttons — you'd think the
hardware would be optimized for the most common action that people perform when using e-readers, but that's unfortunately not the case.
And the actions of the user are so strictly defined — turn
page, highlight, go back to library — that you can build in
hardware buttons to do a lot of heavy lifting.
The ideal e-ink Kindle would have
hardware page - turn
buttons and a touch screen, and the Voyage is the first one to promise that, but instead of
buttons, they've added «pressure - based
page turn sensors with haptic feedback.»
You'll have to rely on the three
hardware buttons below the display to navigate the
pages of individual documents.
Use the
hardware buttons for next
page / previous
page 2.
Their
hardware used to have the ability to add your own fonts, allow SD expansion, audio input and Audible integration, text to speech ability, physical
page turn
buttons (not lousy sensors) in other words things that are tangible and useful (unlike a light sensor) All that is gone now and they can do it because no one is stepping up to Challenge them.
Amazon is almost certainly getting ready to push the launch
button on its next - generation Kindle dedicated e-reader
hardware, and new leaks from the site's German and Japanese stores (via The Verge) reveal it will likely be called the Kindle Voyage, and sport a new high - res display and bezels that can be pressed to turn
pages.
Amazon has completely done away with the
page turn
buttons, which contributes to the overall simplistic design of the
hardware.
It will be one way to define a «premium» reader besides a fancy case or some
hardware page turn
buttons.
I thought that I would really like the PagePress sensors for turning
paging because I favor using
hardware buttons for turning
pages like on the Onyx Boox T68, just resting your thumb on a
button and not having to move it every thirty seconds to
page forward is nice, but so far the
page sensors on the Kindle Voyage really aren't doing it for me.
In addition to turning
pages with the touch screen, B&N also builds
hardware page turn
buttons into the bezel, just like with the standard Nook Simple Touch.
All that additional cost is going to
hardware upgrades, which includes a 300 ppi screen, a frontlight, a flush capacitive touchscreen, and
page sensor
buttons.
Its charcoal - gray bezel has three
hardware buttons on the right side, including two concealed by the case itself; these are for turning
pages forward and back.
Ultimately, however, I used the
hardware buttons on the lower left of the device to handle
page changes, and kept the stylus parked inside its slot.
The device uses a large touch target to advance to the next
page, and a smaller one to go back a
page; gone are the
hardware buttons that characterized earlier Kindle models.
With no
hardware page - turn
buttons, though, and a tendency to lag heavily when loading just about anything — even chapters in a book — it's not quite to the level of the big ebook kahunas.
I'd prefer the Kobo Touch did two things differently with the bezel, actually: make it a bit wider (the Nook's is a comfortable 0.7 inches wide), and add
hardware page - turn
buttons.
As it is, the only way to turn
pages is by tapping or swiping on the screen, and though that works well I always prefer the
hardware buttons.
Both Amazon and Barnes & Noble have better ecosystems surrounding their readers and libraries, both offer slightly more consistent performance, and both offer a few more tweaks, like
hardware page - turn
buttons, that make the experience even better.
No
hardware buttons for turning
pages.
Luckily, Sony has included
hardware page turn
buttons too, which is much more pleasant when you're actually flipping through a book.
From a pure
hardware standpoint, I'd take the Nook over a Kindle any day — I love the
hardware page - turn
buttons, the soft - touch feel, and the overall aesthetic of the device.
Sony is asking more than its competitors, but it offers some unique features that those competitors don't, including stylus input and
hardware page - turn
buttons.
this can save a lot of power compared to normal «low power» modes, and with the right
hardware the main computer can shutdown between keystrokes (in a book reader, only waking up when you hit a
button to turn a
page), but this is still a continuous power draw, unlike the e-ink display the kindle has.
The Kindle Touch itself is fairly minimalist in design, gone are the days of a
hardware keyboard, 5 - way controllers and
page turn
buttons.
There's a contingent of users like myself who will miss the
hardware page turning
buttons, despite the added text entry convenience of the touchscreen, but for most users, an added touchscreen probably outweighs the trade - offs.
It has a mini-HDMI port for connecting to a TV, front and rear facing cameras, USB host capabilities with an adaptor, and it has backlit Android
hardware buttons for navigating and for turning
pages with the built - in Barnes and Noble app (Nook model).
It offers a device that's much thinner and lighter than any previous Kindle, pulling the
hardware into the grip on one side and offering two top
page turning
buttons.
That's a good thing, since it doesn't have
hardware page up / down
buttons like the Nook.