I am totally bummed that the Kindle DX did not live up to my expectations. I wanted to love it, but instead am stuck at like it. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great device if you need the rotation and/or larger screen or really hate the lighter text of the Kindle 2; also, you [...]
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Kindle DX – First thoughts (and an improvement!)
This is going to be a mini-review. I’ll follow up later with a complete review. Screen Contrast Improvement – The first think I can tell everyone is that it looks like Amazon addressed some contrast issues. Side-by-side, the text on the DX is noticably darker. I could tell as soon as I hit the Menu [...]
READ MORE »Kindle DX temporarily Sold Out
If you follow me on Twitter (@mykindlestuff), I predicted this and its happened. If you haven’t gotten your order in, you may still won’t be able to get a DX for Fathers’ Day unless there is a repeat of the Kindle 1 delay. Amazon’s Kindle DX page says it should be back in stock on June [...]
READ MORE »Kindle Textbook News
Per a a reply to my forum post on Kindleboards, Amazon may be opening a Kindle DX textbook store on or around July 1st. In response to my complaint about finding Kindle textbooks, another user replied that the new textbook store was mentioned in a response to their inquiry to one of the textbook publishers. They (Amazon) currently [...]
READ MORE »Finding a Book-Kindle Kvetching
Is it me, or does browsing for a Kindle book via the Amazon site pretty much suck? (We’ll talk about searching later–yuck!) And it’s getting worse! I hate to say it, but I’m blaming it on all the self-publishing, both for public domain and original texts. In fact, that’s why I started this blog. I [...]
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