Hello! Can't Seem to Post

[SaintGenevieve]

I've been using ereaders since around 2006. I started with the Bookeen Cybook Opus (which had terrible 'screen dying' problems - as some of you might know) and went through a few of those. I moved on to the Sony Pocket Edition and still own about ten of those. (The batteries are all in very poor shape.)

I just purchased a B&N Nook Glowlight 4 (never thought I'd been buying such a 'corporate' ereader, but times have changed, and our options are severely limited now).

I wanted a basic *small* ereader (no bigger than 6") with physical buttons. Sideloading to drag-n-drop book files (epub, generally) from my computer to the device. I love landscape view because it makes it easier to hold the device with one hand (and gives it the width vs. height ratio of an open paperback book, so it feels more comfortable to read).

However, the Glowlight 4 doesn't offer landscape view. Also, I find it impossible to read comfortably with the touch screen page-turning enabled. I read in bed and frequently hold the device with my forefinger and thumb (latter on the screen) to shift around, and I also walk around the house with the device. If you take pains to avoid touching the screen when you do these things, you end up pushing one of the four physical buttons, because they're on the edges of the device, at the exact same 'latitude' where your thumb would naturally want to hold it (and your thumb is even more apt to land there if you're avoiding touching your thumb to the screen).

I made a post on the Nook section of this forum asking about very basic advice on modding the unit to disable touch page turning, and my post didn't show up.

So anyway, I hope I can get some help here, and thanks!

J. Shaw