Because your fingers dont have any natural oils on it right? The kindle is also not backlit. It's e-ink.

I completely agree with trying to make Kindle another tablet! It's a book reader for god's sake. The one thing I want it to do it does well. I have the 2nd gen Kindle and did not want to buy the current generation since mine works great still. I wanted to skip a generation until I upgraded my Kindle. Now I'm not so sure I want to upgrade if they release a touchscreen version.

Am I the only one who doesn't want a touchscreen kindle? I do not want to see my finger prints all over the screen while I try to read a book.

'out of respect for our past and present men and women in uniform.' So should we not play as Nazi's and Japanese in WW 2 games?

He definitely was not taking pictures of people in an inappropriate and harassing manner. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/2751554048/ As you can see it's definitely taking pictures of people in an inappropriate manner right? He tried to convey that to the director, but the director refused to view his pictures.