Kindle Voyage review
23 Nov 2014 • sixcolors.comAnd speaking of Amazon…
Unfortunately, the narrow Voyage bezel means that a finger that’s on the page-turn area is also very close to the edge of the touchscreen. I’m finding that I am accidentally turning pages all the time when my page-turning finger drifts slightly over to the screen. (On the Paperwhite, this would never happen because the screen was slightly recessed from the bezel, but on the Voyage the screen and the front bezel are a single unit.)
It seems to me that perhaps the Voyage should ignore touches coming from the borders of the screen. Perhaps Amazon could fix this in a software tweak? As it is, occasionally I relax just enough to roll my finger over a little bit, and suddenly I’m turning pages. I prefer the Voyage’s approach to page-turning to the Paperwhite’s, but there’s still room for improvement.
Yes, please. If there was a way to turn off touch input from the far right of the screen this would solve my largest complaint with the new Voyage.
But the real reason I enjoy reading on these devices is that they’re distraction free. They don’t make noise, they don’t display pop-up notifications, and they don’t offer email and Twitter apps that are just a couple of taps away. The static black-and-white calm of words on a page evokes the best things about reading in print.
Completely agree although I was reading a bit of Jack Reacher on my iPad Mini last night in the Kindle app and it was honestly a nicer experience than I remember the last time I tried. The iPad mini is still a little too large for reading in my opinion. I would love to try an iPhone 6 Plus sized iPod Touch and see how that was for reading.