Amazon Kindle DX Review
03 Jul 2009
Amazon Kindle DX Review
Pros
- PDFs look great.
- Screen is better – the screen is also sharper and crisper than my Kindle 2 in a side-by-side comparison: the text is darker, and the contrast is much better, making for better visibility overall.
- More of the screen’s surface is devoted to the screen and borders seem to be smaller.
- Landscape Mode.
- Really big largest Font Size making it great for low vision people.
- Big enough to read comics and manga.
- Browsing web in landscape mode is great.
- PDFs have page numbers.
- PDF search will highlight the found term on the page.
- More uses i.e. reviewers are talking about transferring knitting patterns, cello music, and that poetry can be read easily on the bigger screen.
Cons
- It’s pretty expensive.
- No Folders
- No SD card for extra storage.
- Lack of Color.
- Dictionary and 5 way controller navigation doesn’t work in PDFs.
- PDF page turns in portrait mode are really slow. They are however fast in Landscape mode.
- No Table of contents in PDFs.
- Keyboard is getting a lot of flack. Keys too small. Having to use shift keys for the numbers.
- Kindle DX is noticeably heavier.
- Navigation only on the right side hampers one handed reading.
- One-sided navigation buttons
- One-handed handling
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