Kindle DX Wireless Reading Device, Free 3G, 9.7" Display, Graphite, 3G Works Globally – Latest Generation | 
| Brand: Amazon
Category: Amazon Devices
Buy New: $379.00
as of 9/5/2010 14:27 EDT details
Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  2105 reviews
Sales Rank: 5
Color: Graphite
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 7.2 x 0.4
Model: D00801
UPC: 892685001928
EAN: 0892685001928
ASIN: B002GYWHSQ
Release Date: July 7, 2010
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Product Description
Say Hello to the Newest Kindle DX All New, High Contrast E-Ink Screen: Our graphite Kindle DX uses our all new, improved electronic ink display, with 50% better contrast for the clearest text and sharpest images Beautiful Large Display: The 9.7" diagonal E-ink screen is ideal for a broad range of reading material, including graphic-rich books, PDFs, newspapers, magazines, and blogs Read in Sunlight with No Glare: Unlike backlit computer or LCD screens, Kindle DX's display looks and reads like real paper, with no glare. Read as easily in bright sunlight as in your living room Slim: Just over 1/3 of an inch, as thin as most magazines Books In Under 60 Seconds: Get books delivered wirelessly in less than 60 seconds; no PC required Free 3G Wireless: 3G wireless lets you download books right from your Kindle DX; no monthly fees, no annual contracts. Enjoy 3G wireless coverage at home or abroad in over 100 countries. Long Battery Life: Read for up to 1 week on a single charge with wireless on. Turn wireless off and read for up to two weeks. Carry Your Library: Holds up to 3,500 books, periodicals, and documents Built-In PDF Reader: Carry and read all of your personal and professional documents on the go. Now with Zoom capability to easily view small print and detailed tables or graphics Auto-Rotating Screen: Display auto-rotates from portrait to landscape as you turn the device so you can view full-width maps, graphs, tables, and Web pages Large Selection: Over 600,000 books and the largest selection of the most popular books people want to read plus U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, and blogs. Over 1.8 million free, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books are available to read on Kindle. For non-U.S. customers, content availability and pricing will vary. Low Book Prices and Free Book Samples: New York Times Best Sellers and New Releases from $9.99. Download and read first chapters for free before you decide to buy
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 My Kindle DX September 5, 2010
Marg H. (Olympia, WA)
This Kindle DX is simply wonderful. I am very happy that I do have it, I truly enjoy reading with it and have not missed the physical feel of the books. I also like the now of getting the books immediately. I have yet to explore all of it. It is everything they say it is.
Changed my Mom's life--Worth every penny of the cost! September 5, 2010
Diane K. Tuthill (Greenwood lake, NY United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I purchased Kindle DX for my 95 year old mother who loves to read but has failing eyesight. It has changed her life! She was struggling with a magnifying glass trying to read the absurdly small and light-colored typefaces in paperback books. She had given up entirely on reading -- a pastime that fills a great deal of her day and brings her much enjoyment. I purchased the Kindle DX with the larger screen as I thought it would allow her to see more text on a page at a large type size. My only concern was that she would find it difficult to maneuver the buttons, or that the size would be cumbersome or heavy as she is a very petite & somewhat fragile lady. After about 15 minutes of instruction, she was reading her first book. I purchase and set the book up for her and really all she has to do is press the button to turn the page and slide the switch at the top when it goes to "sleep" mode. The size and weight presented no problem -- at first she leaned it on a small pillow in her lap so she wouldn't have to hold it, but after a time, she simply leans it against her knees while sitting back in her recliner. She absolutely LOVES it! The adjustable type size is a godsend and the screen readability is absolutely amazing! This device has truly added to the quality of her life and allowed her to continue her avid reading without struggle or frustration. Thank you, Amazon! This was one of the best purchases of my life and worth every penny!!! By the way, I have now purchased the new generation, smaller size Kindle for myself and will most likely have to get one for my husband!
KINDLE DX - A MIRACLE! September 5, 2010
Kay-Ove (TURKU, Finland)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Never in my wildest fantasy could I have dreamt of the day when I for the first time had my Kindle DX in my hands! The delivery was precise, two days from U.S. to Finland! The customer service has so far been incredibly exact, although I have not needed so much of it because everything has worked fantastically. I do not exaggerate when I claim never to have been serviced so well in Finland.
I usually surf with my PC in the Kindle store and when I find what I like, just one-click and after a few seconds my mail box beeps with the order confirmation and after 1-2 minutes my book is in my Kindle. If I get bored with one book reading in my bed, I just make two clicks and start another book. Always my Kindle finds where I left last time. I need not get up from my bed to fetch another book.
Especially I am fond of the text-to-speech option as English is my third language (Swedish, Finnish). I claim to have improved my knowledge in English already considerably during this short period when I have had my Kindle.
I have always been very frustrated with the immense vocabulary in English, and I get annoyed to look some word up in a separate dictionary again and again. NOT ANY MORE.
My Kindle looks up every word I want to have an explanation for, just by moving the cursor to the unknown word.
To you who may still hesitate to order a Kindle of your own, I say without doubt: Don't hesitate! The only thing I regret is that I did not earlier buy one. But better late than never. I MEAN IT! If you will be disappointed: Blame it on me!
Kindle for academics~ September 5, 2010
DMK
I realize that this review may only pertain to a small portion of potential buyers. I'm a researcher and had specific scholarly interests for this purchase. I had recently purchased the kindle DX with the hopes of being able to read, take notes on, and highlight text, specifically for scholarly journals since i have to read so many of them and it is painful after awhile to read on a computer screen. with the amount i have to read for literature reviews, construction of experiments, etc., i hate to lug frayed, printed out, usually crumpled, articles that once i finish, become useless paper junk. I don't like having to print out a bunch of stuff for no reason (also i don't have a printer at home). so now that i have it, does it stand up to the goals? SORT OF. here is the round up, and my bottom line... at the bottom.
cons:
1. you can't just "flip" through pages, you press the next page and go page by page. or you go to the "go to" button, but then you need to know what page to go to. this is probably the worst gripe i have about it. i'm visual in the sense that i usually say "where's that part, it's somewhere in the front..." and skim through pages. i definitely can't do this here. but i haven't utilized the bookmark feature enough and highlight feature enough.
2. pdfs you can't highlight or mark!! also big gripe but i should have known. so i have downloaded calibre and transformed the pdfs into readable (and markable) e-books. However if there are columns, it messes it up :( and i don't believe it imports the graphics. i'd stick to just reading the pdfs, (see pro #4)
3. if you need to look at color graphics, it's in black and white (not a problem for me since all my articles are in b&w anyway)
4. amazon e-books have a proprietary format that other e-books are not formatted in (see pro #8)
5. some formatting to e-books from regular print is weird.
6. magazines you subscribe to have no images.
pros:
1. incredible battery life
2. i've actually gotten interested in books again
3. No more crumpled or destroyed articles and no more killing a billion trees.
4. you can search through your whole collection for specific words. this is EXTREMELY important for me when i am doing lit reviews. sometimes i want to know what the article says about one specific term. i can search for that term and it will list every article [if made into e-book form] that contains it, unlike flipping through every paper bound article to find it. although easily enough you can do this on your computer. but when you are not near a computer, this is very handy.
5. you can read the most embarrassing trash and it looks like you're just reading something scholarly off a tablet ;)
6. i have 27 articles and 10 books on there, and it still only weighs as much as 1 book. this is handy when i do need to read and i don't want to carry around a billion things. i bring a small notepad to jot down small notes if it's necessary. you can still bookmark pdf pages, one of the most amazing pluses. especially during downtime, or commute time. I wish i had this during my general exams. I travelled to philly with an extra carry-on JUST with reading, a headache, hassle, heavy, expensive.
7. the kindle remembers the last page that you read so anytime you access the document again [e-book and pdfs], it's right where you stopped.
8. it has a built in dictionary for any word in the text
9. when you buy books, they are stored on your amazon account and you can sync the last page you read and if you download it again on amazon on another device [phone, computer] and want to read it off of there, it gets you to the page you had left off on before.
10. all annotations and highlights can also be backed up on amazon too [probably only for amazon purchased books though :-/, not sure]
11. you can download a lot of free e-books from other sources and convert them to be read on the kindle (including free versions of major newspapers and some magazines).
12. instead of flipping through to find out all the notes and highlights you made on papers, you can click on one button and all the highlights and notes you made on that book or article with the page location are packaged nicely for digestable scanning.
13. e-ink is great and very easy on the eyes, absolutely no glare from the screen. after awhile looking at computer screens, my eyes do feel a bit fatigued, but the only fatigue i feel from reading on a kindle comes from the reading content itself, not from the screen. this is one huge plus that the kindle markets to true avid readers since the iPad can be a pain for long hours of reading because of it's screen [although it is in color].
14. you can create multiple folders with papers in them. so if you have one paper that you use for one project, say "health issues" but it also says something about "acculturation", you can label that one article in two folders. with paper, you might have a stack of papers for one project, and a stack of papers for reading on another, and then somewhere in there, a paper that can be used in both has to either be printed twice or gets lost somewhere in the middle.
between the cheaper kindle and the dx, as an academic, i'd have to say hands down the DX. there is no way i could think of reading the PDFs on a smaller screen. the size has been perfect for all the PDFs i have read so far. i haven't had to enlarge the window [although on pdfs you can't enlarge text, only magnify, sort of like how you do that on Adobe anyway]. I'm still happy with my purchase [although i admit i am a technophile so it might just be because it's a gadget with buttons that i like it]. Even though the pdf problems are a let-down, it still frees me from being tied to my computer. i don't mind jotting down a note or two. it also means i have less waste around, which to be eco-friendly is nice, but more importantly, as a clutter-prone person, there's less paper garbage around that i have to sort through. however, now being careful about how i name my pdfs is more important. there are other features as well, like free 3g wireless, free downloads, etc., but you can read a lot of them on other websites. so i haven't explored all it's features yet, but this is what i have found thus far.
Love that Kindle September 5, 2010
BGintn
Best invention yet! I love my kindle and don't know how I did without it. It's great.
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