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 Kindle DX July 24, 2010
Janice M Brandsted (PUEBLO, CO, US)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I love my kindle. I took it with me to Costa Rica. Easy to take anywhere. Being able to change print size and words per line is great for me (have had two eye surgeries). It is also easy to download books.
so close to perfect July 24, 2010
robert m
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have been looking at different e-readers for a while now and had not purchased one because I could not find one to fit my needs. I wanted to read books, of course, but I also wanted so much more. I wanted something like the I-pad but...different. E-readers have a higher dpi and are better for reading text, and as we all know, dpi has been the issue since this idea emerged in the mid 90s. I wanted to have other media resources, music, some email or internet. Mostly though I did not want to be constrained to only putting on my reader what the manuacturer sold me. From this I narrowed it down to two readers that allowed other formats, pdf, doc, etc. I can load professional documents and how them without being at a computer. I can recieve an email with a document and scan it on the go. I can also load music that I like into the device and listen to it while i read or just listen to it. Most adults have the music that we would most like to listen to so I don't need to download it from the internet, it is on my computer. Concerning all the peripheals, the reader is almost perfect. I would like the ability to increase the memory, perhaps a sd card or something of that nature. As this device evolves I would like to see a better browser and perhaps some video abilities. We are part of the now generation and we want everything on one device.
I have not mentioned much about reading, because like most major readers it is awesome. I have the black leather case, a must, and enjoy the ability to relax whenever I like. Or download a newspaper, or magazine, or if I am interested in something a reference or textbook. As a reader I have no complaints. I just hope that amazon cntinues to evolve the reader so that it not only fills this niche but will eventually provide all our mobile needs at one time.
Kindles' got me reading again July 24, 2010
Marcus0263 (Seattle)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I used to be very sceptical about the Kindle and the entire eBook concept due to many things like DRM. But when I was preparing for my annual trip to S. America I didn't want to have a suitcase just for my books, so I broke down and bought a Kindle DX. Well I really fell in love with it, I not only was able to read without my reading glasses but reading while outside in the sun isn't an issue either. Once I got back I find myself taking it with me to cafe's and what not and just enjoying a Cup of Coffee, relaxing and getting immersed into great novels again.
So when the new Graphite came out I found an excuse to upgrade. I gave my 6 month old DX to my Father (who's loving it) and got the new Graphite one, here's my take.
New DX
* Yes there is an improvement with the eInk, better contrast
* I'm loving the darker color, easier on the eye's
* Even better PDF support
DX as a whole
* Very easy buying books or even loading up "free" books
* DX is international, I was high up in the Andes and was able to buy/download a couple of books
* Book management is a snap with your Amazon account
* PDF support
* Easily mounts using a Linux Desktop, major plus here!
* Built very well
* eInk is wonderful, very easy to read
Downsides?
* No removable battery, come on!!!
* Still a bit pricey, they honestly should bring the price of Kindle's down further across the board
* Keyboard is pretty much worthless but hey I bought it to read not surf the web, that's what I've got a computer for
* Some publishers just don't get it, they need to drop the price of books. You're not shipping nor storing books, stop gouging the public if you want eBooks to take hold.
Bottom line, it won't replace hard cover quality books nor tech books but it's an excellent alternative to paperback books. The Kindle is simply the best eReader there is no holds bar. Amazon is doing it right here, I'm hoping they don't jump on the do everything under the sun mediocre at best and nothing well like the iPad. But I don't believe they will.
Thanks to Amazon and the Kindle I'm reading books again for enjoyment.
 THE MOST EXPENSIVE ETCH-A-SKETCH IN THE WORLD! July 24, 2010
Anthony G, Ph.D. (Lancaster, PA)
3 out of 36 found this review helpful
When Amazon wrote to me and other potential buyers of the soon-to-be Kindle (1st), I wrote to tell the wood-headed alleged gurus of Amazon that the Reader they had in concept was ultimately like playing Star Trek on a Teletype machine in the 1970s, late. The Kindle has always looked to me like a drab Etch-A-Sketch device. I detest the tiny plastic stick as a navigation device, the lack of color, the gutted versions of magazines and newspapers on the Kindle, the over-priced books for a digital item that you cannot leave to your kids, dog, wife, husband, or a charity when you die, the inability to sell a digital product that I clearly paid for and should own, and the overall stupidity of the Kindle's design given that the Kindle design team must have known or should have known that Apple would create something like an iPad and other book readers would soon appear with color, true Internet functionality, more raw power, a more atractive design, user-friendly features such as touch screen, and so on. Now, Amazon has the audacity to spam me with emails and web-page touts of its great new price - nearly $400.00 for the same piece of crap. No doubt Amazon's revenues were down this quarter: they still do not get it -- the entrepreneurs who created Amazon knew what they were doing but the bureaucrats who run Amazon now who feel their e-commerce empire can grow behemothly, unabated. I have heard a deep backlash against Amazon's insensitivity to functionality in their Amazon-grown technology products. Kindle to my MIT educated mind is a piece of s--t. If you buy this thing, this abomination of a throw-back to technology of three decades ago, save for the simulated printed ink look - you are wasting your money. Wait for Apple or some other company to give you a product that is worth the nearly $400.00 Amazon still tries to bilk from us for its grossly deficient Kindle. Do I despise the Kindle? No, but I despise a company that dupes people into buying a tech product not worth $30.00 in terms of contemporary functionality. Vote with you dollars - don't buy this crap. Demand Amazon fire its R&D team and get people in who know what they are doing, what we really want, what the rest of the tech world is doing, and in brief - people who are capable of real innovative design. I nominate the Kindle Development Team for a Bullwinkle BS Award this Year.
Superb reading device, perhaps the best there is July 24, 2010
D. Thornton
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Excellent E-reader. Have to admit I'am spoiled by it at this point, having purchased over a hundred dollars worth of kindle books. The contrast just blows away the kindle and kindle 2. Letters are perfect, and bettery life (with the wireless off) is excellent. Can read for 2 weeks on one charge. Only thing is, is that the device is very fragile. You have to be careful with it and never spill any water on it. Had to buy the cover and a case to protect it
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