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It's probably also partially an economies of scale thing. Amazon used to sell a 10 inch version of the Kindle but discontinued it due to poor sales.
by xmodem 9y ago
It's probably also partially an economies of scale thing. Amazon used to sell a 10 inch version of the Kindle but discontinued it due to poor sales.
- peatmoss 9y agoI bought the Kindle DX when I was in a masters program. I loved the screen. I did not love the PDF rendering speed. At times it could take several minutes to turn the page on a PDF. Basically, any PDF that had vector-based statistical plots would bring the poor thing to its knees. I wished at the time that there were a large screen PDF reader with modest computational umpf. Nowadays, it sounds like the Sony reader is great, but costly and the Remarkable reader wasn’t vaporware after all... but it’s similarly costly. $350 feels like the right price to pay for such a device. I have no idea if that price makes them worth manufacturing.
- yourapostasy 9y agoThese days the Calibre project embeds a number of great conversion projects and adds its own valuable conversion contributions to turn PDFs to e-reader formats and still do a decent job of preserving layout (a ways to go to match Acrobat's conversion of PDF to MS-Word, but steadily getting there). Take a look at how it manages with your selection of PDFs, and see if they work better on your DX if you still have it hanging around.