http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/May 6th 2009 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/It is immensely frustrating when you want to have another look at a formula on a previous page, and because that page is no longer in cache, you have to wait a couple of seconds (for image heavy pdf files i'd sometimes have to wait almost 30 secoonds if the page was not cached) before the page turns. I found it too disruptive in my studying to be useful. As much as I love the concept of these devices, these kinds of limitations kept me from purchasing one. It really cannot replace the usability of a textbook (though the increased portability is absolutely wonderfull).

On the other hand, I also loaded up some novels, and that is where the device started to shine for me. Due to lack of images and predictive lookahead caching, page turns werent disruptive at all, and it was quite a pleasure to read on its amazing screen. I think I read more in that week than in the previous months combined. But for novels, you do not need a large device like this, a smaller device is much better for that purpose.

So yeah, I really don't see this new Kindle catching on. However, if it helps E-Ink technology become cheaper and more mature in the future, then it has my full support.]]>May 6th 2009 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/
Also, a slightly lighter backpack would go a little easier on the back some days.]]>May 6th 2009 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/
-a touchscreen with a stylus [gross i know - but you can highlight passages.]
-side screen with page numbers down the side [similar to the iphone's (yes, an apple reference) artist organization] that way you can flip to a page easily. also a bookmarker along the side panel to flip to set page.
-foldable: like a book [who would have thought?]
-speedier [this will come with time; i would rather have a little thicker device than waste valuable time w/loading; plus, nothing can be too much thicker than my chemistry book anyways]
-search feature of course
-lecture recorder- external keyboard for note taking in lectures [one side of folding tablet is text, other side notebook]

ambitious i know. but it would sell.

copyright neal l 2009-infinity]]>May 6th 2009 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/May 6th 2009 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/
I don't really see this as all that useful for newspapers, but textbooks on the kindle are great as it is and a bigger screen will certainly help. Really, it will help on just about anything since if I have the text increased to a comfortable size (another often neglected advantage of ebooks) I find myself having to turn the pages too often.

As long as Amazon recognizes that they are dealing with a very targeted market they should do fine with this. I understand the complaints some have with this (except for those arguing for that other readers have public domain books, the Kindle works with those just fine but If you aren't interested in reading things as soon as possible then you really aren't the target audience here), but as someone with specialized needs it's a real lifesaver.]]>May 6th 2009 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/May 6th 2009 9:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/
So I guest it really wouldn't be ported out.

I hate American Standard(not only toilets)]]>May 6th 2009 10:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/
but hey
What's with ISO, it's anyway hard to be International if it does not include
a country call US.]]>May 6th 2009 10:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/
The paper size used in various countries is completely irrelevant as to whether or not that country could use a Kindle. Kindle content itself is designed to be scaled and therefore viewable on an infinite range of screen sizes. The negligible difference between A4 and letter is trivial.]]>May 7th 2009 1:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/
Oh and for the record, the Kindle DX screen is neither A4 nor US Letter. It's smaller than both.]]>May 7th 2009 1:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/
I'm a big fan of e-ink technology and would like to see it implemented in as many ways as possible [I use the Motofone F3 : [thinkmoreinc.wordpress.com] ]. But I cannot see how this move by Amazon would endear itself to its current customers, or those waiting in the wings. Could the color kindle be 3 months away?]]>May 6th 2009 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/
As for the Motofone [my favorite e-ink based product so far], here's the link : http://thinkmoreinc.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/50-2/]]>May 6th 2009 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/May 6th 2009 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/
It would be nice if they put the PDF reader in the Kindle 2 at least.]]>May 6th 2009 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/
also, what happened to the rumored touchscreen?
maybe next month....]]>May 6th 2009 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/
8.5x11 .5" frame flush to the screen with a touch screen (with captive stylus input). Only 1 on and off button on the top. I'm still waiting.]]>May 6th 2009 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/May 6th 2009 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/May 6th 2009 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/May 6th 2009 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/May 6th 2009 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/May 6th 2009 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/
As for me (no eBook reader at all right now) I like the larger size. The smaller ones won't work for my needs. I don't like the price but may still pull the trigger on it. I do wish Plastic Logic would get theirs out the door but I'm not sure i want to wait that long.]]>May 7th 2009 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/
Also, as a recent Kindle 2 buyer I have the opposite reaction as Niley is having. As a consumer, there's no way I would have shelled out the extra $140 for this over the Kindle 2, which probably fits my needs better anyways.]]>May 6th 2009 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/
textbooks on the kindle have to be cheap enough, so that even after selling the textbook back to the bookstore it is still clearly cheaper to buy digital.

also curious, how many years do you think it would take to make your money back assuming digital textbooks are cheaper, or is just the convenience factor enough?]]>May 6th 2009 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/
Sure it would've been easier just to lug my laptop, but reading text on a tiny LCD screen gets irritating, especially considering that much of my projects (and therefore non-school time) were spent staring at text- err, code- on the screen anyway. It's so much easier on the eyes, and my battery wouldn't last an entire day (I was constantly moving so pulling out the AC PSU/plug wasn't fun, plus I could study on the metro).

Several classes had multiple books, and relied on other references. Constantly switching between different textbooks on a kindle is a PITA.]]>May 6th 2009 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/May 6th 2009 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/May 6th 2009 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/May 6th 2009 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/May 6th 2009 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/May 6th 2009 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/May 6th 2009 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/May 6th 2009 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/May 6th 2009 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/
Personally I think it's about time Kindle has native PDF, and if it has touch screen it would be a home run rather than a disputed fan-interfered double that it currently is.]]>May 6th 2009 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/Kindle has the problem of uploading my stuff into it. It's a long lap before I can have all my stuff ready to read. I have to send it to Amazon's site, then check my email and then I can upload it.

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Seriously... Who needs color for a novel? You're not a reader, are you?
]]>May 6th 2009 10:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/May 6th 2009 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/May 6th 2009 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/May 6th 2009 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/May 6th 2009 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/
@Thomas in the post: You mean those same 500,000 public domain books that are available on the Kindle as well? The 500,000 books of which many are just duplicate versions/renderings of the same book? So really the *maybe* 100,000 that aren't already available on Amazon to be delivered to the Kindle wirelessly, and those you can get from any source and drop them on the Kindle yourself. Is Thomas a Sony shill?]]>May 6th 2009 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/May 6th 2009 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/May 6th 2009 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/engadget-on-the-kindle-dx/May 6th 2009 2:55PM