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1. legohead ◴[] No.41860431[source]
I want to upgrade my Kindle but first I need to know where the power button is. My current one has the power button on the bottom and it turns off when I rest it on things - extremely annoying. Can't be certain from the product pictures, but looks like it's on the bottom again.
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2. Xiol32 ◴[] No.41862757[source]
The biggest flaw of the last gen for sure. It's right where my pinky naturally rests and I'm always hitting it by accident.
3. stogot ◴[] No.41863704[source]
Turn it upside down? It works in both directions
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4. thimabi ◴[] No.41863787[source]
The last Paperwhite model, for example, did not work upside down, just in landscape mode (and even so, only rotated to one direction). I don’t know whether Amazon finally added a gyroscope to the Paperwhite in order to fix this issue.
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5. jfultz ◴[] No.41871258[source]
THIS!

I had hope at one point to set up a Kindle with large fonts on a treadmill, but that was just totally hopeless. I tried again with a music stand next to the treadmill, but it was too far away, badly angled, and touching the device to flip pages could still turn it off.

And it's not just the accidental power-off, it's also the accidental power-on. I slip the Kindle into a tight pocket in my backpack, and it sometimes turns on by itself. Further, inserting it into the pocket can sometimes reproduce the swipe motion, so it can be on and active (and sometimes randomly page-flipping) inside my backpack.

6. stogot ◴[] No.41874624{3}[source]
Oh I have the scribe and I guess I thought all models could do that skrry