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Kindle DX's $490 price tag (compared to Kindle's $260) is intimidating, which brings me to the question: Is it worth spending (almost) double the amount and buy
by perivamsi 17y ago
Kindle DX's $490 price tag (compared to Kindle's $260) is intimidating, which brings me to the question: Is it worth spending (almost) double the amount and buying a Kindle DX instead of a Kindle?
- evgen 17y agoThis really depends on what you plan on reading. I read a ton of PDFs: research papers, online manuals, natve PDF books and some books that are scans packaged as PDFs. My previous ebook was a Sony 505 but the screen size was too small to make this a practical reader for me. most PDFs out there do not support the "tagged" format that makes text reflow with the ebook posible. To make a PDF usable I would have to do an elaborate conversion dance of trimming and tweaking contrasts with some PDFs needing to be re- converted to landscape mode after several attempts at squashing them to fit portrait mode. My eventual conclusion was that I needed an ebook with a bigger screen. After waiting and waiting for an apple tablet announcement I went with a kindle dx and it has been great. It does not hit all of the items in your requirements list (I keep the wireless off to conserve battery, the keyboard is almost never used except to jump to specific pages, and it's support of annotation is "weak" at best) but it is probably the best option out there for my needs. My advice would be to start by deciding what screen size you need and letting all other requirements and feature comparisons flow from that decision.
- silencio 17y agoDX seconded. I have the regular Kindle and while it still reads PDFs, having to constantly press buttons to go back and forth on the same page and to rotate the display to be able to read the text is a big pain. I tried the DX and the larger size is definitely better for PDF viewing.