hm, my Kindle (the cheap bastard model, with touch screen only) turns pages accidentally all the time. It is also capable of highlighting text accidentally, although I have never yet been able to highlight text deliberately. It changes font size on its own – I can put it down, and the next time I pick it up the font is changed. When the font is small enough, it’s almost impossible to get back to the main menu, since the responsive area of the touch screen is so tiny and I have fat fingers. I’d prefer buttons – maybe I need to go ebaying at the moon for an old Kindle.

That all said I’m still reading on it quite happily, though mostly Project Gutenberg books, with the wireless turned off so Amazon can’t spy on my reading habits. The other advantage of turning wireless off is that eventually it runs out of ads to show you (cheap bastard model is ad-supported).

While I would like a Kindle version that lights up at night for easy reading I don’t want the touch screen or the ugly (in my opinion) look. I prefer my sleeker slightly larger old version. Also, I have a hard time justifying buying a new model when the old one works beautifully.

Usually I read non-fiction, which takes me a while to digest the information I decided to return to my childhood roots and go on a fiction reading binge this summer with ebooks from the library–records indicate I’ve averaged 5 books a week–and that old Kindle still felt like a new purchase.

I freely admit I’m probably emotionally bonded to my old Kindle (so many amazing journeys, both literal and figurative together) and am probably looking for justification to not abandoning it for a newer model. 🙂

Sometimes my finger hits the screen and nothing happens. I don’t know if my finger has low capacitance or what the deal is – but the buttons are nice to force the page to turn instead of hitting the screen multiple times to turn the page.

The paper white is a great value.

It is great to take a bunch of books on vacation without the bulk of paper books.

If you have Amazon Prime, don’t forget to use your free Kindle Unlimited book per month and take a look at the six free books per month (called Kindle First). Also nice features.