Kindle DX With PDF Support, Auto Screen Rotation

Kindle DX With PDF Support, Auto Screen Rotation

Techtree News Staff, May 07, 2009 1548 hrs IST

Comes with a larger screen too!

Portability
These days, people on-the-move rely on the e-versions of newspapers in the form of the Instapaper like digital paper format. Meant for portability, the big Kindle DX completely discards consumers' fascination for pocket-friendly portable device. Reading text on 3.5-inch mobile phone screen can be painful, but having a large e-Book reader merely adds up to the gadget-luggage.

Competition
Kindle 2 has already found a competitor in Sony Reader. Also, the high price point makes user compare it to the 10-inch netbooks falling in the same price range. It's understood that e-Book reading experience is totally different on Kindle, but why price them as much as netbooks. Also, step-by-step feature upgraded models are have become a norm instead of single model carrying all features.

Amazon boasts of 275,000 books, top magazines, newspapers, and blogs. Amazon has also partnered with textbook reputed textbook manufacturers like Wiley, Pearson and Cengage Learning for bringing textbooks to Kindle DX. In the past, top magazine and newspaper have joined hands with Amazon to provide content. However, this leaves us wondering why coloured content producers are pushing their content on Kindle's black and white e-ink display.

Fujitsu is already offering FLEPia colour e-Book reader for a pretty hefty price. One would rather buy a good configuration notebook rather than investing the amount in buying an e-Book reader and further spending more on content purchases from content providers.

Neither the Amazon service nor the Kindle DX would be available in India till a distant future. Even if it comes, it will take a good couple of years for bringing the local Indian content on the Kindle DX's e-Ink platform.