I love to read. any where i go i have to have a book. i heard about the kindle and it sounded like a great idea. i like to read series and like to own books. with the kindle u can buy and load books in seconds which would make my reading better. if there is a better e-reader out there please tell me with a website. i am a teen and love to get the latest things. your responses will be most thankful. i thank you for your time, and responses.
The Kindle DX is now in stock again! Buy yours now. Just checked the Amazon website for the Kindle DX and this is what is says:
In Stock.
Just a few weeks ago it still had the ”expected to ship in 2 to 3 weeks” message so it seems the new stock of DXs has arrived! You can choose between free shipping, which takes a few days, or if you are in a hurry you can use the One-Day Shipping at checkout and have it in your hands by tomorrow.
It is not difficult finding a review of the Amazon Kindle Dx if you search, but you will get some mixed results. The Kindle is the most popular ebook reader on the market and as such it has to appeal to a wide variety of people, something which is nearly impossible. While many complaints are due to personal experiences which are fairly uncommon, such as a 12 hour battery not lasting long enough for someone used to transatlantic flights, you will find some valid concerns. While many people may not feel these concerns will affect them, it is still important to address all of them. When you are buying a $500 piece of technology, you want to make sure you know exactly what you are getting.
List down the advantages of the Amazon Kindle Dx and you will find yourself with a rather long list. The hype surrounding it during its release had some basis after all. First, the Kindle DX sports a huge screen with an auto-rotate feature, and natively supports PDF documents. All these make for a great device for reading newspapers, illustration-heavy books, tables, charts, and maps. Its 4GB of hard drive is large enough for your entire library and then some. The DX also has the sleek design of the Kindle 2 but with a much improved look and feel, and better placement of buttons.
But there are still issues, many of which aren’t exactly the fault of the device. The biggest complaint that many users have is the DRM (digital rights management) that Amazon has chosen to use. DRM is widely considered an outdated practice of material protection and unfortunately limits the kinds of documents you can use on your Kindle DX. You are forced to buy from Amazon and you may find that many of your reader files will not work.
And if you have a lot of reading material, you will struggle to search through it as the organizational limits of the DX are imposing. If you do manage to fill up that 3,500 book capacity, you may spend most of you time filtering through it looking for the book you want to read. And it is impossible to discuss the DX without mentioning the price. At nearly $500, many people just cannot afford to buy one.
All that taken into account, it’s time to take a step back and consider if the Kindle DX is worth having. True, it is one of the most expensive gadgets around given the fact that it’s more of a hobby gadget than necessity, but the features that also come with it as an ebook reading device certainly can’t be easily dismissed. It may have its share of flaws which are quite off-putting for some, but these flaws do not affect 100% of buyers. The bottom line is, the Kindle DX may not be for everyone just yet, but for most of those privileged to own one, their purchase was worth the price.
Check this video for more Kindle Dx customer reviews:
Amazon Kindle DX is an amazing mobile device. It accompanies you anywhere, it offers enjoyable ergonomic reading, it stimulates your mind and responds to your sudden urges to read this or that title not currently at hand. For reading text-books whose assets include full-color images, diagrams and detailed small-print tables and graphics, Kindle Dx is not yet there. But the platform is ready to evolve with the e-paper technology, and it is not unreasonable to expect a full-color e-paper device within a year or two, if the right advances are made quickly enough.
If you need a touchscreen computer-like device, this is not your device. If you need something that acts like a book, but is electronic, lightweight, able to handle huge numbers of titles, and convenient to use, Amazon Kindle Dx is for you. Cost may be an issue, however: the Kindle DX currently retails for $489 and the Kindle 2 for $299. You have to pay for content, but you’ll get a better deal on that content than any paper version of the same publications.
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Uploading PDF documents is simple, aided by a dedicated email address that automatically converts the PDF and sends it to the device wirelessly. Cost is $0.15 for doing this. You can store hundreds, or even thousands of them, on the Kindle Dx, you need to take down your notes elsewhere. Many are now hoping for full-color non-backlit e-paper to arrive may be in two years time, and when that comes, look for e-paper and touchscreens to start converging. The technological problems inherent in achieving this are complicated, but the rewards could be immense for the Provider, for readers, for publishers, for the news business, and for all of us who use media for access to global information.
One of the first things to praise about Amazon Kindle Dx when reviewing it is its efficient wireless download process. Kindle DX allows for wireless connection to the Kindle Store and immediate wireless download, from any location, without requiring any connection-login or wifi network. How? Amazon registers the device for the end user before sending it out, so it can be opened and used, straight out of the box, literally within seconds.
Its black-and-white e-paper monitor allows for extremely efficient battery usage. It need not be put to sleep or turned off, as the device uses no energy to show what is on the screen, only to change what is shown, navigate or download. Battery life can be prolonged dramatically by turning off the wireless connection, which is only needed to browse the Kindle Store, and download updates or new purchases.
Kindle Dx screen is in some ways a blend of the e-paper concept and a traditional monitor, which means that in low light, it appears darker and is harder to see than the average printed page. E-paper works on the principle that the surface of a page reflects light, so no backlighting is necessary. The black text on white background should imitate this effect, but with the e-paper surface inset behind a plastic cover, there is a reduction in the reflective ability of the surface of the device.
One of the most comfortable, and useful, things about the Kindle DX, from reviewers’ point of view, is news reading. Every morning, the most recent editions of the newspapers and magazines one has subscribed to are waiting to be read.
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One can shuffle through the content of major publications, like the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, or Salon. Blogs are also available, and they are updated multiple times per hour, so that any new content will appear on the same day it was posted to the blog online. There is also a peppering of international media sources, so one can read the news in French or Spanish. The Shanghai Daily is also available, in English. It is rewarding to get a look at the French daily Le Monde, which due to time-zone considerations, tends to publish 12 hours before the list-date.
Plus, it’s helpful for language skills to cross-compare vocabulary used in US political reporting and French-language reporting on the same issues. Buying foreign newspapers in the US can be a costly adventure and often produces only a pared-down version of the full publication. The Kindle allows instant pre-newsstand access to the original content.
The benefit the Kindle DX offers is not about browsing the web or searching for the latest information on a given subject; it’s about ease of reading and portability for a digital library, possibly thousands of titles and millions of pages, which can range from newsprint to literary fiction, summer romance to your favorite magazine. It’s about finding a comfortable way to make huge amounts of information highly portable. Text is displayed simply, in something like the traditional black ink on white paper format, with indented paragraphs and justified margins. The idea of mimicking the printed page is evident, and the streamlined text-intensive format, with few graphical enhancements is a welcome “cleaning up” of periodicals and websites that are increasingly noisy and given to complicated graphic-intensive layouts, kinetic Flash advertisements and other bells and whistles.
A slightly wider screen or the choice of smaller text sizes, by the user, might be instrumental to making this function workable. On rotation, in landscape view, a three-column option might be nice as well. This kind of layout flexibility should be workable, because the Kindle format is uniform and privileges text over other media.
Some users may at first be frustrated by the lack of browser-like menus and options. But the Kindle is designed to be mechanical, like a book. To highlight the text-on-paper reader-content relationship, the Kindle emphasizes the virtues of e-paper over the versatility of a laptop-style graphic-user-interface (GUI). Menus are simple, static page-view lists, which one navigates by scrolling up or down the list, using the 5-way navigation button nested between the “MENU” and “BACK” buttons. Since the e-paper surface is not touch-sensitive, more dynamic page-flipping and graphic-intensive navigation options are not available. Also, there’s the low-energy logic of e-paper: those graphic-intensive touchscreen features require computing power, which means electric power, which means lower-battery life and more energy consumption.
The touchscreen magic of the iPhone and iPod Touch have revolutionized gadgetry and our expectations about the intensity of focus on end-user interactive priorities, but they are based on a very different set of assumptions than the Kindle’s e-paper technology. The iPhone and iPod Touch are fully intended to be intensely diversified multimedia platforms, on which literally tens of thousands of services (”apps”) can be implemented.
The Amazon Kindle DX and Kindle 2 are, on the other hand, intended to be single-medium delivery vehicles, which do something like bring the vastness of a bookstore beyond any bricks-and-mortar inventory, to within 60 seconds of you, wherever you are. Apple’s products can mimic this effect, and there is a Kindle app for the iPhone and iPod Touch, but despite similarities, the two technologies remain distinct, and even parallel to one another, addressing different aesthetic and practical concerns.
The new Amazon Reader Kindle devices enjoy 16 shades of gray, instead of just 4, but some users complain this has reduced contrast, which, by the way, cannot be adjusted. It has to be said, the softer light radiating from the Kindle is softer on the eyes than a back-lit screen, which projects a constant stream of its own light directly onto the retina. The footnote capacity is brilliant, it helps one feel like there is something like margin-scribbling going on and each note goes into the My Clippings file, its own Kindle book on the main page, although you are compelled to rely on a paper notebook or a computer to do any real writing.
Check out what various customers are saying about Kindle Dx when they were asked for some reviews so far:
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Obsessable gets a first look demo of the new Kindle DX from Steven Kessel Senior Vice President of WW Digital Media.
Top 10 reviews gives us a quick and simple review of the main features of Amazon’s Kindle DX ereader, which include a larger screen than most ebook readers, with 16 shades of gray so you can read books, newspapers, and magazines with pleasure.
