The guitarist was recognised as much for his powerful, gruff vocals as his musicianship and was known for playing with picks on both thethumbandindexfinger of his right hand.
We didn't have to change our usual or "traditional" finger positioning, meaning we were able to keep our right thumb in the bottom left corner of the pad and use our indexfinger to navigate. (Even if our thumb moved slightly up on the pad it still worked.) Best of all, while using that finger positioning we rarely zoomed in on something by mistake.
The newer, thinner Kindle seems more interested in wowing customers with its iPod-like exterior than in comfortably filling the space between an indexfingerand a thumb.
Horsup works in northern hairy nosed wombat conservation, which at the time involved holding a piece of wombat excrement between his indexfingerandthumb.