You won't find many people who are completely satisfied with the lack of
physical page turn buttons on the Kindle Touch.
The thicker bezel has actually allowed the placement of two
physical page turn buttons on each side.
You can also use
the physical Page Turn buttons on the side, which I found to be perfectly situated beneath my thumb.
The Kindle Oasis offers
physical page turn buttons on the right - hand side where you hold the device, as well as the option to use the touchscreen.
The one thing this e-reader has going for it is that it has
physical page turn buttons on the left and right sides.
While there are
no physical page turn buttons on the Nook GlowLight, you can turn the pages on the device with a touch or a swipe.
There are
physical page turn buttons on the left and right hand side of the e-reader.
This new e-reader does have a touchscreen, but also
physical page turn buttons on the left and right side.
And, are
those physical page turn buttons on each side?
Not exact matches
There are
physical buttons on the right hand side of the e-reader, allowing you to
turn pages and access menu functions, much akin to the way you would interact with the Kindle DX.
In the first week or so of use I certainly did find this very cool but once the newness had worn off, I found myself back using the
physical page -
turning buttons - you can't swipe with your finger while drinking a cup of coffee and
on the train!
While reading, you can
turn pages either by using the
physical buttons on the side or tap the edges of the screen.
They decided to go with a simple home
button and
physical page turn keys
on the left and right hand side.
The only
buttons present
on the Illumina are
physical page turn keys
on the left / right hand side of the screen, back
button and the
physical button that
turns on the front - lit display.
Some people also really like
physical page turn buttons, which is somewhat of a lost art with most devices
on the market.
People who have older models are used to hitting the
physical page turn keys and clicking
on buttons to call up various setting options.
There are a number of e-readers
on the market that have
physical page turn buttons, that allow you to easily
turn the
pages in your favorite e-book.
It has a front - lit display to read in the dark and
physical page turn buttons if you do not want to rely solely
on the touchscreen.
It still has the
physical buttons, such as the D - PAD and
Page turns on the front of the unit.
You can
turn off the touchscreen completely, so you can exclusively rely
on on the
physical page turn buttons.
On a positive note, it does have
physical page turn buttons.
This device lacks a
physical keyboard but does still feature
page turn and menu
buttons as there is no touch
on this Kindle.
The Nook's pretty minimalist too, and like the earlier GlowLight, has no
physical page -
turn buttons, which some people like but others consider superfluous (the Kindle Voyage has touch - sensitive
page -
turn buttons on the bezel).
Nielsen also derided the Kindle Fire's lack of
physical buttons for
turning e-book
pages, but again, that's true of every tablet
on the market (and I don't think it's as frustrating as Nielsen makes it out to be).
The screen size should be the same as the paperwhite's but with no bezel (you hold it by its sides like an iPhone), and thick (approximately 3/8» thick, like a paperback book), and with an ergonomic grip
on the sides along with
physical page turn buttons also
on the sides.
Physical buttons: there's an «n»
button that brings up a menu and
turns the GlowLight
on and off, and
buttons on each side for
turning pages.
Further enabling your one - handed reading adventures are the
physical page turn buttons that are easily accessible to your thumb
on the front bezel.
Amazon has included two
physical buttons on the outside edge of the device to
turn pages if you don't like the touchscreen.
If you're not big
on touchscreen interfaces, you're out of luck with this one since there are no
physical buttons available for
page turns, just power and home
buttons.
There are very narrow bezels
on three sides of the 7 - inch, 300ppi E Ink screen; one side (right or left, depending
on how you're holding it) has a larger bezel with
physical page turn buttons.
While there are no
physical page turn buttons (a feature we would have appreciated) you can
turn the
pages on the Kindle Paperwhite with a touch or a swipe.
Physical Page Turn Buttons = Keep your finger
on the
button and press down (minimal effort).
And while some people may prefer the Voyage's
physical page -
turn buttons to the Paperwhite's touchscreen taps and swipes, we think most will be fine with the onscreen controls
on the Paperwhite.
No
physical buttons exist for
page turning on the Paperwhite or the Aura One, but they are present
on Oasis.
Another nice feature is the addition of
physical page turn buttons meaning you can
turn the
pages by gestures
on the touch screen or with the click of a
button on the left or right hand side.
There's are two
physical buttons on the edge, so you can still press to
turn pages, as well as tap or swipe as you prefer, so the interaction and the feel in the hand is very much as it was before, although there's now less travel in the these keys.
It is almost magical that by default the thumb rests
on the
page turning physical buttons.
The experience of pressing a
physical home
button, then, is arguably more satisfying than pressing a software one, in a similar way to how
turning a
physical page is more desirable to the
on - screen equivalent (as much as engineers try to find ways to mitigate this).