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This is really cool. I have the Kindle 2 and the PDF conversion on many books is really bad, but especially programming books. However, the Kindle DX looks huge
by jamiequint 18y ago
This is really cool. I have the Kindle 2 and the PDF conversion on many books is really bad, but especially programming books. However, the Kindle DX looks huge. I'm not sure I could carry that thing around the same way I do the Kindle 2.
- neovive 18y agoAs stated a few places. I think this may work well for students that need to carry around many large/heavy textbooks. Since it would still fit nicely in a book bag. However, the price tag is a bit high for students, unless the textbooks are already included :)
- Xichekolas 18y agoEh, eight semesters in college at $400 in books per semester comes out to $3200. An extra $500 wouldn't make a huge difference, and would make biking up the hill much easier. ;)
- mblakele 18y agoBetter add the cost of a replacement policy to that total.
- gcheong 18y agoI'm thinking of getting my niece one when she goes to college, but that's still a couple years out so who knows what will be available by then. The point is, I'm sure many if not most of the students will not buy them directly but will have them bought for them by their parents, or others just as computers are now.
- Herring 18y agoNoone else will say it, but I'm sure the piracy will pick up if it gets popular enough.
- seldo 18y agoIt sort of seems like it's massively in Amazon's interest if it does, right? They want eBooks to catch on like MP3s did, and the way to do that, it turns out, is a decade of massive piracy before the publishers finally give in.
- andreyf 17y agoI don't know if it's in Amazon's interest or not, but at least from my experience at Rutgers, it's more than true. Internal file sharing networks had PDF versions of nearly every textbook used in the CS and Math departments...