This is one of my main motivations. I also hate bezels. Unfortunately there's just no touch layer that would allow small ones :( If you want an 8" device there

This is one of my main motivations. I also hate bezels. Unfortunately there's just no touch layer that would allow small ones :( If you want an 8" device there's a fairly good market around 300€ already, with my favorite being the Kobo Forma and the Kindle Oasis also being worth a look (along with some others). Both have fairly small bezels on 3 sides and a thick one on one for holding. My dream would look about like those devices, but yeah - the touch panel issue. I can't imagine a decent UX just based on buttons yet. One possible way forward is finding/making/retrofitting a reader app that is buttom navigable and maybe having a thinkpad nib as a fallback, but I'm not too sure about that since it'd compromise the UX fairly significantly, I'd say.