Comments on: Kindle DX vs. Kindle 2

By: RickD

RickD — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:13:57 +0000

I read something about “plan to stuff your Kindle DX” to plan on spending “$20,000″.

That’s actually a very interesting point.

So.. what if I have an Amazon account, and I have a Kindle, and I purchase a lot of books. And further, what if I wanted to sell my Kindle…. why wouldn’t I also (after removing my credit card number of course) sell my Amazon account that I used to purchase books, along with my Kindle and all my books?

I mean, I understand if you get rid of your Kindle your book purchases are no long “valid” too, right?

(Still trying to ascertain this…)

By: Maria

Maria — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:09:13 +0000

Really glad to see this comparison and the info you provide on Kindle in general. Sounds to me like with a few more technological advances the Kindle is going to be a rip-roaring machine.

I like the ability to read PDF and larger fonts (sometimes have trouble with my eyes.)

Thanks again for the thorough review.

Maria

By: David

David — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:22:24 +0000

re: “but then we would also have pocket-sized fusion, world peace and the answer to life the universe and everything…”

Um, isn’t that “42″?

Great blog —

David

By: JohnW

JohnW — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:40:58 +0000

On Kindle 2, ALT-Next page would jump forward by 5% of the document. This does not seem to work on my Kindle DX. Neither does shift-Next page.

Has anyone found a quick way to jump forward in a document on the Kindle DX? Using the go to location menu item is just klunky and slow.

By: kindle dx

kindle dx — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:03:11 +0000

I agree that the Kindle touch would be great to have and no more keyboard. Maybe once e-ink comes out with the technology to have touch screen along with the e-ink the price of the Kindle would also come down. That would really be he perfect world.

By: George

George — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:08:11 +0000

A couple of comments. (1) You omit the .azw1/.tan format which, while I detest it, is readable on both machines.
(2) The resolution advantage of the DX assumes that the document displayed can take advantage of that higher resolution. I bought the DX in part because some of my eBooks have maps that weren’t legible on the K2. It turns out that they’re not legible on the DX either because Amazon and/or the publisher did not provide them at a useable resolution. I hope that with higher resolutions now available some of the poor materials will be rescanned, republished, and made available to the original buyers at no additional cost.

By: Vadim Grinshpun

Vadim Grinshpun — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:34:24 +0000

this has instructions for instaling Droid fonts on the DX, so they may be on par in that respect.
(article is in Russian, don’t have time to translate right now).

http://www.the-ebook.org/rus/?p=1544