This is an amazing product for people who love to read. It does for books what the ipod did for music.
Its a little heavier than I expected, but not too bad--and WAY better than carrying around a bag-full of textbooks. At the time of this review, I find that about a third of my textbooks are available in Kindle format. When they are available, they typically cost less than 1/2 the price offered at the campus bookstore. Classic literature (novels, philosophy, etc) is usually free or ridiculously inexpensive. I expect the DX will pay for itself in about 2 years.
The ability to read pdf files makes it convenient for reading articles from scientific and academic journals, as well as online handouts. However, when viewing pdf's, it displays a page at a time and the text is consequently rendered fairly small (this is not an issue for me, but I could see it being a problem for some users). Alternatively, you can turn it on its side to get magnified view, but since academic journals are normally laid out in a 2-column format, you have to turn the page back and forth several times to completely read a single page in this orientation (and again, this only applies to pdf documents laid out in a multi-column format).Get more detail about Kindle DX Wireless Reading Device, Free 3G, 9.7" Display, Graphite, 3G Works Globally – Latest Generation.
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