Amazon Kindle Touch 3G: Full Review
20.05.12
Smartly, the Menu options change based how you're using the Touch 3G. On the home screen, the Menu pop-up includes options for archiving content, creating collections, and syncing the device to look for new content. Inside of a book, the Menu button pops up options for turning on/off wireless, shopping the Kindle store, syncing the book to the furthest point read, bringing up a book description, adding a bookmark, viewing notes and marks, and turning on/off the text-to-speech feature.
Within books, the navigation system, called EasyReach, separates the screen into three basic regions. Tapping the top of the display launches tool bars at the top and bottom of the screen. Tapping the far left of the display turns to the previous page, while tapping anywhere else moves the content forward. To turn pages, you can tap either side of the screen, or swipe from left to right. Swiping from top to bottom (or visa versa) jumps from one chapter to the next.
Once we understood how EasyReach worked, we found it easy to use and responsive, but we had to read the user guide first. We would have preferred to have physical buttons as an additional option, like Barnes & Noble offers with the Nook Simple Touch.
Source: LAPTOP Magazine
