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Thorough and fair review of the Kindle Touch with two current competitors- Nook and Kobo.

Given its lower rating than the Kindle 3rd Gen (which I have and like alot despite hitting the page turn buttons unintentionally and often given their size and placement) I'd like to have this author give a thorough head to head comparison of Kindle's 3rd Gen with the new Touch. The lower rating certainly implies newer is not better.

One gripe: Amazon has - unexplainably - taken away the option to switch to landscape mode. The other Kindle's (even the 3rd gen) have this.

The only explanation I can think of is that the screen is physically wired to perform the actions (turn, menu, turn back). If that is the case, rotating the screen would throw a monkey in that system. But I can't imagine that to be true.

Hopefully a software update will fix this. I do like the touch, overall.

This post has been edited by mattwolfmatt: 28 November 2011 - 03:47 PM

I have a first-gen Kindle ($399!) that I use more or less daily and works fine. It has a hidden feature to turn off justification, which is a must because justification without hyphenation leads to some really terrible layouts with huge gaps.

I took a look at the Nook Simple Touch in a B&N recently and the interface is overall much nicer than my Kindle's, but it still suffers from excruciatingly bad text layouts. I just don't understand why Amazon or B&N can't hire someone who knows something about layout. If they licensed Adobe's Paragraph Composer, I'd buy a new one in a second.

I just bought a Kindle Touch for my Mom. I can't figure out how to get the screen to "light up", to read in the dark? I've looked for a brightness adjust or a light to turn on, and can't find any. Does anyone know how to tell me to turn on the screen light??

neonurse70, on 27 December 2011 - 02:47 PM, said:

Just like a real book, the Kindle Touch has no backlight. If you want the screen to be brighter you have to shine an external light on it -- the sun works too.