I use page turn buttons on my Sony PRS - T1.
Bookeen's answer may well be that you can easily use the touchscreen to turn pages, but some people prefer to
use page turn buttons, requiring less motion than any other method.
Once the touchscreen is disabled you will only be able to
use the page turn buttons, however the gyroscope continues to work.
Using the page turn buttons is very intuitive and turning the pages of the book are lightning quick.
I found this super discombobulating, and found that when
you use the page turn button, this error does not occur.
Not exact matches
Toddlers
use their fingers and hands to push
buttons, put things into boxes and dump the box, and
turn pages.
You can
use the touchscreen to navigate or the physical
page turn buttons.
You can quickly
turn a
page using the touchscreen or the manual
page turn buttons.
The issue of
using the volume
buttons for
page turning has also been overhauled so that it now allows for better and more refined control.
Although you can
turn pages using the built in forward and backward
buttons embedded into the unit.
This means, you can hold the Oasis with your left or right hand, and still
use the
buttons comfortably to
turn pages.
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.
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.
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.
The OS still feels sluggish, especially when you choose to
turn your
pages using the touch - screen instead of the physical side
buttons.
This works well with kobo touch you don't need the front light contrary to what someone above said, you
use the home
button, but on the aura it causes flashing on every
page turn hope I can restore it again!
As for why
page turns take longer when
using the
buttons, the answer is fairly straight forward.
You can now
turn pages with the swish of the finger, instead of having to
use external
buttons.
The left and right bezels contain rubber - covered
page -
turning buttons if you choose to
use them instead, but they're poorly implemented (although very quiet).
You select content and
turn pages using buttons, bars, or (on touch - screen models) an onscreen swipe.
When you download a custom e-reading app you can't
use the manual
page turn buttons, instead you have to rely on the touchscreen.
The top and bottom
buttons are mainly
used for
turning pages forward or back when reading ebooks.
There is a dedicated home
button on the front of the Note and no others, whereas the MAX2 has two other
buttons beside the home, which is
used for
turning the
pages of ebooks or accessing other features.
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.
People who have older models are
used to hitting the physical
page turn keys and clicking on
buttons to call up various setting options.
The Nook Glowlight was a great e-reader, and I
used it endlessly until it Nook shut down their UK stores earlier this year — I never wanted to upgrade due to the lack of physical
page turn buttons, and was perfectly happy with the first Glowlight.
The best way to
turn pages in ebooks is to
use the back and forward
button, but this method is only compatible with the built in e-Reader application that your Pandigital comes bundled with.
I could hold the stylus in my gloved hand a
use it to
turn pages just fine, but I think that a couple of
buttons on the next PaperWhite would be a good addition.
You will have to
use the touchscreen to
turn the
pages of books, and most e-reading apps are 100 % reliant on the touchscreen, so
buttons are redundant.
There are a few reasons why people love their manual
page turn buttons and continue to
use older models.
Every single Sony e-reader model whether it had a touchscreen or not
used physical
buttons to navigate around the device, including
page turn keys.
Why would e-reader companies want customers to still
use D - Pads, home
buttons and
page turn buttons when phone companies abandoned this sort of thing almost six years ago.
This is a bare bones reader, it does not have wireless internet access or a touchscreen, instead you have to navigate around
using the D - Pad and
page turn buttons.
The PaperWhite doesn't have any
buttons and it
uses a capacitive touchscreen that doesn't recognize a gloved hand to
turn pages.
Gone are the
page -
turn buttons that
used to edge the sides of the Amazon Kindle; instead, you now
use the touch screen to flip back and forth.
The
button layout forces you to hold the Pocket Edition in a certain way (in your left hand, if you want to comfortably
use the
buttons to
turn pages), and I did slightly miss having
page -
turn buttons on both sides, but I mostly
used the touch screen to navigate anyway.
The
page buttons can be programmed for a number of functions in the settings menu, which is nice because that gives you more control over how to
use the device and it makes the
buttons useful with apps like Kindle that require
using volume
buttons to
turn pages.
Instead of
using buttons to
turn pages, search the text or scroll up and down, you interact with the screen the same way that you would a smartphone or tablet.
With no nav
buttons on the Kobo Glo whatsoever, all
page turning and navigation is done
using the touchscreen.
If you someone loose it or don't want to
use the touchscreen you can
use the D - PAD and manual
page turn buttons.
The e Ink screen is not touchscreen and you will have to
use the
page - up and
page - down
button to
turn pages.
Being able to hold the Touch with one hand and
use the manual
page turn buttons will appeal to people who commute to work every day.
EPUB and DOC files are great, you can
use the manual
page turn buttons to read, which is nice when you don't want to employ the stylus.
This device also has mechanical
buttons so you can either
turn pages directly on the screen or
use the right and left
buttons of the reader, perfectly located to facilitate the one - hand reading!
I have noticed that there is a split demographic of users that swear by manual
page turn buttons, while the other half are
used to touchscreen devices where they swipe and gesture.
It's good that you can
use the touchscreen to
turn pages, but why not include dedicated
page -
turning buttons as well?
I would recommend never to
use the touchscreen, instead rely on the
page turn buttons.
It
uses a D - Pad to navigate and features
page turn buttons to switch forward and back while reading.
This allows you to
turn the
page without a full refresh each time (the
page will refresh at intervals based on your
page refresh settings, just like when
using the
buttons).