Amazon Kindle DX to feature 9.7-inch display? Update: Pictures!

It's still an elusive target for our old friend Mr. Blurrycam, but We just got some basic specs on the new, decidedly more newspaper- and college textbook-friendly Amazon Kindle DX. Here's what we know: it's got a 9.7-inch display (as opposed to the current six-inch unit), a long-requested built-in PDF reader, and the ability to add annotations in addition to notes and highlights -- whatever that means. We're also hearing that New York Times will be offering a $9.95 / month subscription, a little lower than the current $13.99. Honestly, that all sounds to us like this really is just a Kindle with a larger screen, not the newspaper savior it's being hyped as, but ol' Jeffy B. might still have surprises in store, so we'll see. Seriously, can't Wednesday just hurry up and get here already?

Update: Looks like Mssr. BC decided to throw down -- check out some pics in the gallery!

Update 2: Some more details care of the Wall Street Journal. Chief information officer for Cleveland-based Case Western Reserve University -- the college whose president will be taking the stage with Jeff Bezos -- Lev Gonick said select students are being issued the new, larger screen Kindles (doesn't specify DX) in the fall semester with pre-installed textbooks for chemistry, computer science and a freshman seminar. Five other universities including Pace, Princeton, Reed, Arizona State, and Darden School at the University of Virginia are also said to be signed up for the trial. As for the new details on the device itself, the report states it's got a more functional web browser, with no word on how that'll jibe with Whispernet.

Amazon Kindle DX to feature 9.7-inch display?

[(Unverified) Posted May 5th 2009 7:16PM]

1. Those who say they need 8.5x11? With margins, your letter-size page is just about the same as this Kindle. (And to the guy who said you'd have to pan around the screen??? Get a clue or stop posting.)

2. You insist you need color, you need video, you need your porn? Get yourself a notebook; there are plenty of them out there. Of course, your battery will need recharging every few hours, whereas I can use my Kindle for days on a charge.

I'm absolutely convinced that 99 percent of those who are dumping on the Kindle have never actually used one.

[celticelk Posted May 6th 2009 3:47PM]

1. It's not, actually. Assuming a 1" margin all the way around, that 8.5x11 sheet of paper has a functional area of 6.5x9. (6.5)^2 + (9)^2 = 123.25; SQRT(123.25) = ~11.1 inches diagonal.

2. I have to agree. I got a 1st-gen Kindle from my mother-in-law for Christmas, and it overcame my skepticism in pretty short order (and I'm a librarian and die-hard physical-book supporter, so that's not exactly an easy task). My biggest problem has been finding content that I want to read on it, as I have some pretty esoteric tastes. If I could download PDFs from my university subscriptions to various journals, scan the ones that are only availabel in print, and carry the resulting library of resources on, say Irish and comparative Indo-European mythology with me? WIN.

[(Unverified) Posted May 5th 2009 7:57PM]

I own a Sony PRS-505 and am actually very happy with it. I read "The Economist" on it every week. Also, I have a few classic novels on Sony memory stick. The E-ink is fantastic and as someone mentioned earlier on, it doesn't burn your eyes out. I think it has fewer gray shades than the Kindle 2 and no wireless.

Since I've been dying to read technical (information technology and computer science) books on the device, I can't wait to see what the K2 DX looks like. My PRS-505 can read PDFs, but really messes up with diagrams in PDF documents when you jack up the font size. FYI, the smallest font size is virtually unreadable in a PDF document - you have to use at least medium font to enhance your experience, but then the diagrams get trashed. Hopefully the K2 DX experience will be great for reading technical books without losing the diagrams. I don't really care about color and can live with the e-ink limitations. If you're reading plain text, the convenience and liberation that an ebook reader offers will blow your socks off.

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[(Unverified) Posted May 6th 2009 10:34AM]

It needs to be password protected. Otherwise it will just be too easy to steal, password it and let me put my name and cell number on the splash screen.."20 bucks if you return this to bob at 555-1111".

Password protect it, or my 16 year old won't be getting one.

He loves his E-book.

This would be incredible to use for medical records, most of my annual exams are on a form already, i could mark it up, print a copy and store the data. Can i get my form onto this thing as a pdf?

[(Unverified) Posted May 6th 2009 3:40PM]

Just price $489.00. Please look review about Amazon Kindle at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4EGwrUv__g

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