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Kindle DX Wireless Reading Device (9.7" Display, U.S. Wireless) | 
| Brand: Amazon
Category: Amazon Devices
List Price: $489.00
Buy Used: $398.00
as of 3/11/2010 07:19 CST details
You Save: $91.00 (19%)
Used (10) from $398.00
Seller: juanzone
Rating:  1328 reviews
Color: Bisque
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 7.2 x 0.4
Model: D00611
UPC: 892685001188
EAN: 0892685001188
Release Date: June 10, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Slim: Just over 1/3 of an inch, as thin as most magazines | | • | Carry Your Library: Holds up to 3,500 books, periodicals, and documents | | • | Beautiful Large Display: 9.7" diagonal e-ink screen reads like real paper; boasts 16 shades of gray for clear text and sharp images | | • | 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 | | • | Built-In PDF Reader: Native PDF support allows you to carry and read all of your personal and professional documents on the go |
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Product Description
Sleek & Trim Kindle DX is as thin as most magazines. Just over a third of an inch in profile, you'll find Kindle DX fits perfectly in your hands. Beautiful Large Display Kindle DX's large display is ideal for a broad range of reading material, including graphic-rich books, PDFs, newspapers, magazines, and blogs. Kindle DX's display is two and a half times the size of the Kindle display. Whether you're reading the latest bestseller or a financial report, text and images are amazingly sharp on the 9.7" screen. Auto-Rotating Screen By simply turning the device, you can immediately see full-width landscape views of maps, graphs, tables and Web pages. Built-In PDF Reader Unload the loose documents from your briefcase or backpack, and put them all on Kindle DX. From neighborhood newsletters to financial statements to case studies and product manuals--you can take them all with you on Kindle DX. Native PDF support allows you to carry and read all of your personal and professional documents on the go. With Amazon's Whispernet service, you can send your documents directly to your Kindle DX and read them anytime, anywhere. 5-Way Controller Kindle DX has an easy-to-use 5-way controller, enabling precise on-screen navigation for selecting text to highlight or looking up words. Simple to Use, No Computer Required Kindle DX is completely wireless and ready to use right out of the box--no setup, no cables, no computer required. Long Battery Life - Read for Days Without Recharging With Kindle DX's long battery life, you can read on a single charge for up to 4 days with wireless on. Turn wireless off and read for up to 2 weeks. Battery life will vary based on wireless usage, such as shopping the Kindle Store and downloading content. In low coverage areas or in 1xRTT only coverage, wireless usage will consume battery power more quickly.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Excellent for work and leisure time March 11, 2010
Andreas Haeusler (Lisbon, Portugal)
As a German living in Portugal, I was jealously following all those recent developments in e-book technology, knowing very well that I could get my hands only on a very few of these devices. Extensive research over a couple of months showed that Amazon's device was the one I needed. Admittedly, I am a printed book fetishist; I followed the first wave of e-books about 6 or 7 year ago with a mixture of disgust and hatred. This changed plainly due to the fact that I wanted to stop printing all those research papers, but I didn't want to read them on the computer screen either.
My demands on an e-book reading device were: the possibility of reading PDFs (I'm a PhD student and was literally suffocating in the piles of printed papers on my desk) without printing them, but without causing me eyestrain either -- something which happens on a normal computer screen. (Well, one can reduce this by switching to inverse colours (this really works!), but still it's cumbersome.) Furthermore, I wanted to be able to provide annotations to documents, to place bookmarks and to highlight important passages. Being able to store a collection of important engineering books was also a necessary prerequisite. And of course, it would be cool if I could display all those magazines as well.
Besides these, I had of course demands on using this device in my leasure time, having especially in mind those seemingly endless plane travels, where you can only take that much of research books, magazines and novels with you.
Well, to cut a long story short, my research revealed that the technologically most advanced product was Amazon's Kindle DX. It has a display allowing to read a published paper like on paper, a really "natural looking" screen, and many, many other features. It of course lacks a touch screen, but once you read about the technology behind the e-ink, you pretty soon realize that (at least nowadays), a combination of both a touch screen and an e-ink display will definitely have drawbacks on clearity of the fonts; your reading experience will decrease. I guess that's also a reason for the fact that the vast majority of all e-book readers don't have a touch screen -- with one attached to your device, you basically would read like if you'd spill cream soup all over your display.
So I decided to (somewhat impatiently) wait for the Kindle to be available to Non-US residents. On 13th of January the Kindle was announced to be available soon for us Europeans, and I immediately ordered it. Then the big day was there for the Kindle DX to be delivered (19th of January). And here comes Amazon's totally out-of-this-world delivery service: I actually was holding it in my hands 36 hours later! From the US to Europe, including customs and everything, this is the most amazing service job I've seen for international orders ever in my life; even from Germany to Portugal it takes much longer than that. Now I know why "Amazon" has the first four letters in its name.
And for the International Kindle DX: it is plainly beautiful, sexy, mouth-watering. I read papers on it, I read scanned notes from my Prof on it, I tried the Alt-Shift-M combination and played Minesweeper on it, PDFs are displayed razor-sharp, and Amazon's native books are the best thing after (and pretty close to) reading the printed copy -- and that for sometimes as less as 15% of the printed book's price! PDF search works like a charm, as does the speech synthesizer. And for the Whispernet: I wonder if there's another manufacurer who allows you to just browse and download a new book on SLR photography while you're stuck without internet access on a rainy day in the middle of the mountains. I love my Kindle!
Last, but certainly not least for those of you who have to argue with a sceptical wife about whether this expense is justified: just go ahead, order it! She'll look at it like at any other of those "boy's toys" first, but it will take only a couple of days and she'll be using it more than you do.
Conclusion: this is the most highly recommended gadget you can get yourself in the beginning of the 21st century. Its is of skyscraping quality and standard that no other manufacturer can meet right now. And it is backed by more users than any other such device, which definitely adds stability to this product in terms of continued customer support, R&D, and perhaps extension of the product range. If you don't have it, buy it. You cannot go wrong on this.
Love My Kindle March 11, 2010
S. A. Stevens (Sydney OZ)
I Love my Kindle. The best product I have bought to date. I love reading, at times I can be reading 2 or 3 books at once. So carrying all them around or making sure I have the right one at hand can get a bit annoying. I had read the reviews on the Kindle for quite awhile before buying it. It is quite expensive so I wanted to make sure the product was good and that most of the problems were sorted out before purchasing one myself. Well it arrived and I have not been sorry. It travels with me everywhere on the bus and MTR ( HKG train ) and even waiting at the doctors office. I find downloading very easy and as I live in HKG it works and downloads very easily. The fact that I have all the books on hand at a click of a button still gives me a trill. The Kindle 9.7 is a little heavy but then I figured so is the book War and Peace. If you are like me and find that you can read anywhere, any time the kindle is for you. In fact husband feels a little left out, must remember to get him one!
nice screen March 11, 2010
deliah scott
I like the bigger screen and the possibility to enlarge the print. Very clear print and graphics, generally easy to handle, didn't have much time yet to play with it. Easy, quick downloads, despite I'm living in an area where I have to use satellite for computer connection!
Picture Perfect PDF's and documents March 11, 2010
Candace Beauchamp (Austin, TX)
My wife has had a Kindle 2 since they first came out. I hemmed and hawed over getting a Kindle simply because I read a lot of magazines. I'd heard that many magazines were going to be available in Kindle format, but who really wants to read them on that small of a screen?
Well, I am still waiting for many of my favorite magazines to be available on the Kindle. However, I've found that the larger screen is great for PDF's! Many books and reference materials are available in this format. Are you a student? Many textbooks can be purchased in PDF format for much less that the physical book.
I also use my Kindle DX for reading normal books as well. In low light areas you can enlarge the font and still have plenty of words on the screen. This is not something you would normally want to do on smaller screened book readers.
I love my Kindle DX and I would never go back. I do sometimes miss the feel of a paperback in my hands, but then I realize that I am holding several hundred books all at the same time (many of which were free!)
Love it! March 10, 2010
KJT (Toronto ON)
I wasn't certain how I felt about the lack of "romance" of the electronic book reader; I thought I would miss the typeset, the smell of the pages etc. But for what it is intended to do - this is perfect! You can carry hundreds of books around with no effort. For "classics" of course you'll still buy paper - but for travel and especially for work documents, this is a great tool. The greyscale is very easy on the eyes and the battery lasts for days!
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