The problem with Android Tablets and Reading

Its the buttons at the bottom stupid.

Got my kid a Galaxy Tab 2.0 for Christmas. I started looking at it opened up a book and tried to read it.
The buttons at the bottom are a problem and I find them more annoying every time I try to use the tablet.
Every app I open I grab the tablet from the lower left
or from the lower right or lower left and right and I easily hit the menu or search button or return button.
Cant even enjoy reading a kindle book!
SO is there any way to move or disable or do something to those
buttons so people that are holding a tablet they can stop bouncing around between menus at such?

Why can't applications HIDE or move those buttons to suit there interface?
How about reducing the touch screen area so everything isnt hot?
EVEN worse if you go to grab the top, which is very uncomfortable, you are going to hit the power button and find yourself strugging to get back to where you were.

It makes the entire experience annoying rather than enjoyable.
And isnt reading wathcing a movie etc... supposed to be enjoyable?
Ideas ? New interface options?
Some kind of tweak out there in the droid world?
Designers got any ideas? Bigger bezel maybe?
Bob

 

The current crop of tablets and phones I have are all Android.
DroidX2, Razr and Samsung phones, Asus Transformer and the Samsung Tab 2.0 tablets.
Trying to hold a 10 inch Transformer for long periods is not good. I dont care whose tablet it is. All of them are kind of heavy at that size. Your hand cant fit around them so you can navigate with one hand while you hold with the other. So 10inch for reading is OUT..
In comparison I have an ITouch with the ONE button in the middle and FIND IT MUCH easier to hold and use, but its tiny and the IPad at 10 inches is too big.

The Tab 2.0 with the buttons at the bottom has no way to stop from hitting them.
Wanting to hold the tablet like a book from the bottom to read is a given.
Holding these tablets from the bottom means fighting with pop up menu's or going back to home or going backwards period.
Its just not a pleasant experience.
My wife, who is computer illeterate, just hands it back to me constantly and now has NO interest in a tablet. I can'y argue with here.
I understand.
My pinky finger is getting a callous from holding my Razr with my pinky supporting the bottom edge of the phone so I DONT hit the button while reading email and navigating with the other hand.

I am on a tear about this because GOOGLE is BIG they need to do better and I know they can do better.

Bob