Read a couple books on Touch might swap for regular, here's why

[db120]

I've read a couple books on the KT and after playing with the regular non-keyboard version at the store today think I might swap them. I'd rather have buttons on the side than look at my finger on the screen to change pages, somehow that takes me out of what I'm reading unless I'm speed scanning with my finger on the screen, and you obviously can't do that with the KT.

I've had to read some real vocabulary dense material lately and the regular Kindle brings the definition up full screen default so I can highlight and clip the word, with the KT it's two steps to do that, not a big deal but the less steps the better. Scanning through a book seemed much faster turning pages with the buttons on the side, but I didn't play with it for a long time so I'm not sure on that. My only reservation is highlighting things with the cursor with the regular Kindle, I have to do a lot of that and not sure how speedy that becomes (would like to hear about this)?

[Annalog]

I find highlighting with the cursor on my K2 quick and easy. It did not take me long to get into the habit of moving the cursor up from the bottom of the page or down from the top depending on the location of the text I want to highlight, annotate, or look up.

What is sometimes frustrating is when I have made 3 or 4 highlights or annotations in a short period of time and then I have to wait for my Kindle to save the changes. Hopefully the OS on the newer Kindles has resolved the file wait problem between the index files, the book annotation file and the MyClippings.txt file.

[db120]

What is sometimes frustrating is when I have made 3 or 4 highlights or annotations in a short period of time and then I have to wait for my Kindle to save the changes. Hopefully the OS on the newer Kindles has resolved the file wait problem between the index files, the book annotation file and the MyClippings.txt file.

Interesting, I've run into lags with the Touch, but not when saving. I'd hate to swap this one and be frustrated with what you're describing. Going to give it a couple more days and decide. Thanks for the info

[Annalog]

db120, my comments are related to the second generation Kindle which is probably much slower than the current Kindles. Also, I only notice the delay when my annotations have been close enough together in time to be while my Kindle is still indexing the previous annotations. Hopefully someone with a new non-Touch Kindle will comment. Try making several annotations in a minute to see if this is a problem on your Touch.For me it seems to be a factor of the number of annotations in a short time, not the size of the annotations The problem has been reported to Amazon Kindle support by a few of us and be corrected on newer Kindles or in future updates.

[Andra]

Highlighting is much simpler on the K3 (or Kindle Keyboard) than the K4 because the Kindle OS assumes when you press in the 5-way that you want to start highlighting.  On the K4 there is a second press of the controller to indicate that you are wanting to do a highlight...