If someone really
wants page turn buttons, Nook is still selling its basic unlit NST.
Not exact matches
To view that, select the «Date Range» box on the left side of the
page,
turn the «Compare»
button on, and select the dates you
want to compare.
I
want physical
page -
turn buttons, (which the new edition surprisingly seems to include), but I also
want a lightweight gizmo, and most importantly, with a somewhat larger screen, neither of which the new edition seems to have.
This e-reader also has a dedicated home
button and physical
page turn keys.Advanced settings lets you remap the
page turn buttons for those of you that are left handed or
want to read digital manga.
It's everything I've
wanted in an e-reader, including physical
page turn buttons.
«We really didn't
want any bezel or bling or even
page -
turn buttons — everything we've done over 15 generations has been to reduce it to basically a piece of paper.»
People would buy the product since it has everything they
want (larger screen,
page turn buttons, expandable storage, high resolution, etc.) and then people would start buying the content.
If you just
want to read the document as is, when you click on the
page -
turn button you can scroll further down in the document.
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.
There is no
page turn buttons, we
wanted a really lightweight and slim design.
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.
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.
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.
Note that she does not just
want to
turn pages with
buttons.
If you someone loose it or don't
want to use the touchscreen you can use the D - PAD and manual
page turn buttons.
This is tremendously useful for people who
want to exclusively rely on the manual
page turn buttons.
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 offers an ebook
turning button, both forward and backwards, to assist you if you do not
want to
turn the book
pages via the touch screen.
For example, I'm seeing a fairly consistent behavior when tapping the «nook»
button twice after
turning a
page: the last line on the screen (the one temporarily «obscured» by the navigation panel) looks noticeably darker / clearer than the lines above it (I
want to say it is «as clear as can be» but that might be a little too sweeping a statement to make at this point).
Maybe I sound lazy,
wanting to be able to
turn the
page with a simple click on the screen instead of a
button.
It's a pretty phenomenal deal, even though this is the non-touchscreen Kindle version (some of us don't
want fingerprints on our screen anyway and prefer
page turn buttons), and it comes with «special offers.»
Because your thumb rests so comfortably on that
page turn button, you can make your way through a book without ever having to lift your thumb unless you
want to go backward to read something you missed.
I liked the
page turn buttons but would have preferred them on both sides instead of having to rotate the device when I
wanted to switch hands — rotating to me was a reading distraction.