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As a Kindle DX owner, it's all about the form factor and readability. Back lit screens cause eyestrain for those of us who read quite a bit. With my DX I can
by jbondeson 15y ago
As a Kindle DX owner, it's all about the form factor and readability.
Back lit screens cause eyestrain for those of us who read quite a bit. With my DX I can read for hours on end in any environment I could read a dead tree version in. And with the battery life measured in page turns, even when reading at a crazy clip I can go more than a week without charging.
Form factor was the other huge sell. If I want the ability to read my collection of technical PDFs without a microscope (or awkward panning) the large size is needed. Even with non-PDFs I like the hardback size font and character count on lines.
The DX is the only game in town to get both of those right.
- antimarketing 15y agoAs a former marketing manager I think you simply wrote the most wonderful product pitch I have ever read. You rock!!!
- tseabrooks 15y agoI work in front of a computer and read 1-2 books a week on my ipad.. if I have eyestrain I'm not noticing it.
- jbondeson 15y agoNo one has figured out a way to objectively measure eyestrain so it's a completely personal decision. As a developer I too spend all day reading and writing text on a screen and I can can tell you that there are so many things that go into what causes me eyestrain personally that I'm sure making any of it objective would be tough. I have tons of problems with eyestrain when reading black-on-white text for long periods of time, so the kindle works great for me. I'm sure with a sufficiently configurable reading app I could tweak it until I could stand it, but I don't know too many PDF readers that allow you to start messing with background colors and the like.