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Kindle DX Wireless Reading Device, Free 3G, 9.7" Display, Graphite, 3G Works Globally – Latest Generation | 
| Brand: Amazon
Category: Amazon Devices
Buy New: $379.00
as of 9/9/2010 06:57 CDT details
Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  2125 reviews
Sales Rank: 5
Color: Graphite
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 7.2 x 0.4
Model: D00801
UPC: 892685001928
EAN: 0892685001928
ASIN: B002GYWHSQ
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Shipping: Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Product Description
Say Hello to the Newest Kindle DX All New, High Contrast E-Ink Screen: Our graphite Kindle DX uses our all new, improved electronic ink display, with 50% better contrast for the clearest text and sharpest images Beautiful Large Display: The 9.7" diagonal E-ink screen is ideal for a broad range of reading material, including graphic-rich books, PDFs, newspapers, magazines, and blogs Read in Sunlight with No Glare: Unlike backlit computer or LCD screens, Kindle DX's display looks and reads like real paper, with no glare. Read as easily in bright sunlight as in your living room Slim: Just over 1/3 of an inch, as thin as most magazines Books In Under 60 Seconds: Get books delivered wirelessly in less than 60 seconds; no PC required Free 3G Wireless: 3G wireless lets you download books right from your Kindle DX; no monthly fees, no annual contracts. Enjoy 3G wireless coverage at home or abroad in over 100 countries. Long Battery Life: Read for up to 1 week on a single charge with wireless on. Turn wireless off and read for up to two weeks. Carry Your Library: Holds up to 3,500 books, periodicals, and documents Built-In PDF Reader: Carry and read all of your personal and professional documents on the go. Now with Zoom capability to easily view small print and detailed tables or graphics 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 Large Selection: Over 600,000 books and the largest selection of the most popular books people want to read plus U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, and blogs. Over 1.8 million free, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books are available to read on Kindle. For non-U.S. customers, content availability and pricing will vary. Low Book Prices and Free Book Samples: New York Times Best Sellers and New Releases from $9.99. Download and read first chapters for free before you decide to buy
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 2125
 Worldtraveller September 9, 2010
A.C.de Zwart
I am a merchant navy Chief Engineer and I read a lot to spent the time during my months at sea. I live in Thailand where English books are very limited available.
I used to buy a stack of books on airports where I passed to join a vessel anywhere in the world and where English books are sold (like Johannesburg) to have reading matter on board. Once I had 17 books with me and after 3 months I was through them. Upon leaving the ship, most of the times I had to leave the books there as they put too much weight to my luggage.
Now with my Kindle DX I have more than 300 books with me, no more quick browsing in an airport bookstore, I just can select what I want comfortable in my home as Thailand is fully covered by the whispernet.
Moreover, I have subscribed myself to several magazines and they are automatically uploaded to my Kindle when I reach several ports. I can read them about the time of release and do not have to wait until I come home and find a 4 month stack of magazines waiting for me.
I needed some information from the internet and to my surprise it was possible to get to the internet from the ship with my Kindle DX in Apapa, Nigeria and get the information I needed.
Regarding my job, I can put manufacturer's manuals on my Kindle in PDF format in my office and show them to my engineers when they are on the job in the engineroom to give proper instructions or clarify things for them from the drawings.
Other features like the easy access to the dictionary is great, access to the internet is slow but I appreciated it very much when normal computers were not available or in hotels without internet availability.
Unfortunately, the Text to Speech feature is lost to me as a non native English speaker.
I had never expected it would become such a big part of my life. I enjoy it every day, not only on board of ships as was my intention but also at home.
Great for pdf reading, however lacking in music and internet function September 9, 2010
D. Echevarria (Houston, TX USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great product I wish it was selling for $249, then it would be five stars. However, I feel it lacks in certain aspects such as internet browsing and music playing for a $379 price tag.
PROS:
Screen, Screen, Screen! So pretty!
9.7" allows comfortable reading of magazines and pdf files.
Resolution is Impressive.
Plays Music.
Browses Internet.
Text-to-Speech.
Battery Life.
Cool Factor.
Kindle Store (Free eBooks, low-cost eBooks, best selection of eBooks)
Free 3G!
As of 9/8/2010 is IN STOCK! (other Kindle models are out of stock)
CONS:
Some pdf files (large paged textbooks)require landscape view to read, maybe 10.1" screen would be better.
Can't change battery.
Screen not back light for night time reading.
No color, only shades of black.
No touch screen
Music player just plays mp3's in the order you add them to the kindle" /music" folder.
Internet Browsing is comparable to early pda's. No flash support, no video, etc...
Text-to-Speech sounds like a freaky robotic voice.
Relatively big price jump ($190 more than the 6" Kindle w/3G+Wifi) from the other two smaller Kindle models.
No Wifi.
Page turn reload time is noticeable.
Laggy/slow menu.
No way to rearrange file order within folders.
3gb of memory ( I want MORE!!)
Worth every dime. September 9, 2010
Susan
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As a person who's house is filled to the roof with reference books, I told myself I could buy another bookshelf and put it *somewhere*...or buy the Kindle and put all my books in one little device. I chose the Kindle and I'm not disappointed. I debated for a while though because of reading a couple negative reviews. Here's some quickies I read and my response:
Some people complained about the folders option not being suitable enough but I don't know why. You can create collections to organize everything. What more do you need?
Some people complained it was heavy. I sit on the couch with books ten times heavier...this little thing is a relief! I don't think its heavy at all.
Some people complained it didn't do enough...it's a book. If you're looking for a all in one device, this isn't it. If you want something to collect, organize and read your books from, this your device.
I love my Amazon Kindle DX! I plan on buying the little one to use for traveling.
 The DX = software issues and serious shortcomings September 8, 2010
OldRick (Pacific Northwest)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This DX Graphite has a lovely display, and the browser works better than I expected.
However, the PDF software support is massively flaky, and there are important missing functions:
- I loaded one 7MB PDF into it that required almost two minutes to open each time I tried, and usually froze the machine after displaying the first page. The entire Kindle would lock up and require a hard restart by holding the power button Off for 30 seconds whenever I tried to open it. Customer support is "looking into it," but not very seriously, as they didn't even request a copy of the file to investigate.
A different smaller PDF file simply never appeared in the Home page list of documents, no matter how I tried to load it into the Kindle.
- A couple of features that were available in earlier and later Kindle versions do not exist on the DX: it does not allow adjustment of line spacing, and does not support Left justification. Both of these shortcomings reduce reading speed and readability considerably. It also offers only one typeface, contrary to earlier Kindle publicity.
- The Home page is the most unusable table of contents imaginable.
You can sort the document display by author, title, or tags(categories), but only in low-to-high sequence, and every document you own is always shown in the list. Try to image the nightmare of finding a document by an author whose name begins with Z, but which you cannot remember how to spell, once you have more than a couple of hundred documents. It would take longer to browse to the document than to read it, if you had anything like the advertised 3500 books stored!
Further, it is just a simple text list with a lot of space between the lines, which makes very poor use of screen space - a book-cover icon view would be far more useful.
What bothers me is that Amazon has given no indication of any plans to update the DX v2.5 software with bug fixes or feature upgrades. For that reason I'll probably be returning it, in spite of its excellent 9.7" screen.
kindle DX September 8, 2010
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i bought the Kindle DX from Amazon for reading material while travelling, and it fit the need well. my sister owns the older Kindle, and i like the fact that changing pages could be done by either hand, which it cannot in this version. otherwise, this Kindle is easy to use, except for the fact that it often changes orientation without need nor being asked to do so. the fact that the print size can be changed at will is a plus. i have not yet tried the read aloud feature, which is also a reason which i picked this model.
while the kindle is great for travel, in daily life i prefer a printed book, which can be handled, in which pages are found easily...
the complaints about the DX i had read mostly centered around the cover and its effect on the machine. so i did not buy one, and find a case for a small laptop meets the need quite well.
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