Agreed. It's way too limiting to think of just simple scrolling, as in moving the page around with a finger. The D-pad can do much more than that.

Take just a simple thing as paging down page-by-page with a D-pad: say you want to go _exactly_ two pages back: Press 'up' on the pad twice, and you're there. You don't even have to watch the display. Can't do that with finger scrolling.