They give it 3 1/2 out of five stars and don’t seem to be too thrilled with it. According to the reviewer it is sluggish and can take a few seconds to respond to a tap. K. T. Bradford says that several times it did not respond at all. As to the touch screen, Bradford feels that it contributed to more eyestrain than he noticed on non-touch readers, but the screen, itself, was crisp.
On ergonomics, he found that swiping the screen to change pages “quickly became tedious; pressing a button to turn is far simpler”. This is something I thought about when I was at the press conference where it was introduced. I would find it extremely annoying to go swipe, swipe, swipe, time after time when reading for an hour or more. However, he does say that despite the units overall slowness, page turning is faster than the Nook and on a par with the Kindle 2. Overall he feels that the Kindle 2 still offers the best design with the Nook coming in second.
On swiping the screen to turn pages:
I have a different reader with a touchscreen and I have the contrary experience. When I’m reading with the device propped up, turning pages by swiping is vastly easier than hitting the button for me.