Comments on: Obsessable first look at Kindle DX

By: doctorparadox

doctorparadox — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:28:25 +0000

if i were a student again, the idea of carrying all my textbooks around in one 18.9 oz. device would have been really appealing — but i wouldn’t have been able to afford it back then. And now that I have enough liquid income to make it more viable, i’m not at a point in my life where i really need it anymore.

Really curious how well this thing will sell…

By: cantleysugar

cantleysugar — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:28:31 +0000

Very interesting. I have AMD and am hoping that this device will be able to show text sufficiently large for me to read.
Any reason why it shouldn’t be able to speak the words?

By: RentHead718

RentHead718 — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:20:10 +0000

I officially need a Kindle.

By: cksample3

cksample3 — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:57:04 +0000

That’s a good question. It should work the same as the Kindle 2 with normal text, but I don’t know if it will work with the PDFs that this reader supports.

By: rwilson290

rwilson290 — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:55:24 +0000

The principle problem with reading newspapers on the Kindle is that they only have a table of contents at the section level (not down to the article level). This means you have to click through every friggin article to find out what’s going on. PLEASE AMAZON and CONTENT PROVIDERS, create a table of contents for articles. It’s completely unusable for newspaper reading without it.

By: rwilson290

rwilson290 — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:08:56 +0000

The problem with Textbooks is that they need to enable students to resell them somehow at the end of the semester (or make them cheaper such that Cost of e-Textbook = New Book – Resale Price + Perceived Value of Keeping the Content Forever)

By: cksample3

cksample3 — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:17:02 +0000

Hey, this isn’t correct. If you click on the # next to the section in the Table of Contents on any periodical, it gives you a list of articles in that section.

Cheers,

C.K.

By: cksample3

cksample3 — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:10:45 +0000

that’s a really good point that I hadn’t thought of. Of course if the textbook sale price is considerably lower than the normal textbook then that’s not too bad.

By: rwilson290

rwilson290 — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:42:23 +0000

You’re right – thanks for the correction.

By: exinferiz

exinferiz — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:07:19 +0000

Dont give in to Amazon trying to lock you into their walled-garden. I say we wait for what Apple or Plastic Logic will come up with.