Editor's rating : Discuss this product Where to Buy. What's not: Doesn't support as many formats natively as Sony Readers. It replaces the DX reviewed here.
The DX looks, feels and acts much like its smaller brother—in fact the physical resemblance is uncanny. Like the Kindle and Kindle 2, the DX works with ebooks sold by Amazon over , as of this writing and. The 9. Like the Kindle 2, the DX has 16 shades of gray but images look better thanks to the larger display.
The Kindle can rotate to landscape mode in fact it can rotate in all 4 directions , which is useful for PDFs. The Sony models require a button press to rotate, while the Kindle DX has an accelerometer so you need only turn the ebook reader to rotate the display.
The accelerometer is sensitive but not overly so, and you can disable this feature if it bothers rather than helps and use a menu to switch orientation instead. The keyboard area itself is smaller, so that the device could be as small as possible. The page turn buttons are only on the right side the Kindle 2 has them on both sides. This may annoy those who regularly use the left side buttons on the Kindle 2, but as a leftie, I always use the buttons on the right. You can rotate the display upside down to move the buttons to the left side the joystick reorients itself when you rotate the Kindle DX-- nice.
Of course, the keyboard is difficult to use when the DX is upside down! The display, as with all e-ink screens, is incredibly sharp and easy on the eyes with none of that laptop glare or eye-tiring 60Hz screen refresh.
Still, the Kindle DX has an excellent display for reading text and one can read for hours on end without suffering eyestrain. As with the Kindle 2, there are 6 text sizes to choose from press the Aa button to select the size , and one standard system font for body text the same font as the Kindle and Kindle 2.
The font sizes are the same as the smaller Kindle, but obviously it displays more words per page given the larger screen, making the large print option more tolerable. How about PDF documents? The good news is that the display size is well suited to the common 8. But the Sony Readers have a 3 level zoom feature that helps with this, while the Kindle DX inexplicably lacks a zoom feature. If text is too small to read on the DX, you can rotate to landscape mode which enlarges text, and generally makes it readable assuming you have reasonably good eyes.
Images and documents look great on the DX—better than on the Sony Readers. Also odd is the Kindle DX's lack of dictionary support the Kindle has a built-in dictionary that works everywhere else and there's no support for table of contents in PDFs. The go to page function does work, so at least you need not hit the next page button 50 times to get to page Despite these complaints, the DX overall does a very good job of rendering PDFs in a readable and pleasing fashion, including images which look sharp and detailed on the large display.
The shift to a larger-screen Kindle makes sense. Dominating the front is its 9. The device measures In my hands-on examination of the device, I came to appreciate many aspects of its design.
Still, some roadblocks ahead could impede its widespread adoption. Gone are the left-hand navigation keys—a conscious design choice, according to Amazon. When you flip the unit upside-down, the screen automatically inverts itself and the navigation buttons respond appropriately, reflecting the new orientation.
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