Snagged mine (new) off ePay for USD 68, say 45 quid.. LIST is absurd--saw some >USD 125 and Amazon was 80; am against making Bezos a Trillionaire.
He's already too arrogant (for Our own good.)
Hey.. a separate keypad is an option: there's all that free space: on either your right OR >Left< Eh?
Already I see my #oTpys falling.. no stabbing, no overlapping keys because there's just the right key spacing.. even typing pianissimo.
Oh, and: it's ~silent, only a slight thump if you're heavy-handed. Why it's a Model M sans the CLANKS.
(It can't fix my prose, though.)
Lucky you with a Leftie mouse (though their ad says 'right-handed'?--you must have blackmailed a CIEIO.)
Won't try to sway you with paeans re. the Logi Trackman--weunses have Had those discussions.
Seems that some folks' thumbs just don't want to move that-little-bit to ... save all that avoirdupois-in-motion: from future hand/arm/shoulder destruction.
(Have also seen such er, 'ratty' mice as you describe.. I certainly wouldn't let a cat play with such a bedraggled mouse!)
Need to give this sucker a real test.. type out the libretto for Götterdammerung? Swann's Way?