Kindle DX
 

New Kindle DX, 9.7" screen, auto-rotate (portrait to landscape), still gray-scale screen. Oh, and $489 + $50 for a cover :eek:.

Comparison

DX | Regular Kindle
Display: 9.7" | 6.0"
Size: 10.4" x 7.2" x 0.38" | 8" x 5.3" x 0.36"
Weight: 18.9oz | 10.2oz (courtesy sbm12)
Storage: 4GB (3.3 usable) | 2GB (1.4 usable)
PDF: Native | conversion required

Engadget hands-on review

$500
 

I'd love one. But not for $500. No where close.

You forgot another important stat - 18.9oz v 10.2oz on the smaller one.

I like the K2 and wouldn't go near the larger one; I like that mine is actually portable. I do like that it can rotate the display, but that isn't enough to get me on board.

Seriously for that amount of money I would buy a netbook and a regular kindle.

I never saw a price in any of the stuff I've glanced over saying it was coming, but never saw the price.

Well the K2 is $360 compared to this at $490. I think they each have a separate market, though if you don't plan on using your Kindle for much more than just reading traditional books, there is no reason to get the big one.

As a college student I would be attracted to a KindleDX for something like a text book though something tells me the large cost of text books is not there to primarily cover the printing and shipping cost. Also, in the past five years or so, text books have gotten magnitudes better as color printing has become standard and the design and layout really play an important role in how your process the information you are seeing. With that said, if it offers a decent amount of savings I guess it is something I would consider as it would be nice to shed a few pounds of weight each day.

If I were still a student or had to read a lot of technical stuff, I'd be all over this. But since most of my reading is long-form narrative stuff, I definitely prefer the portability of my K2. The DX wouldn't fit in my purse :)

I have thousands of pages of scanned PDFs that I print and read. I am tempted because of the native PDF support. I want to see if the Kindle 2, however, is upgraded to handle PDFs natively. I think it will be a tight fit, but it may work.

I don't think it will work. The screen just isn't big enough.

I want this thing (I think it will be my birthday present). Amazon says it will be released this summer. Does anyone know when?

It looks enticing - I would like to get multiple newspaper subscriptions - no more ink on fingers.

Question - does anyone have any insight into the newspaper format? I want to see the actual newspaper (ads and all) not an internet formated list of articles.

The K2 was an alternate format, without ads. I would assume that the DX is the same.

I'm considering this for technical books that we buy at work in PDF format.

Regarding textbooks and technical books, I hope that the cost of printing the relatively small runs of these things will make the ebook versions compellingly cheaper than the physical books. Being able to do full text search on this kind of material is also a real plus.

I do wish there were some way of demoing my PDFs on this device.

Amazon has a rather liberal return policy.

What really surprises me is only 4gb on a machine meant to handle pdf's.

I'm guessing that they are banking on folks using PDFs that are generated from a computer rather than a scan. Those are much smaller and easier to render.