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Kindle DX Wireless Reading Device (9.7" Display, Global Wireless, Latest Generation) | 
| Brand: Amazon
Category: Amazon Devices
Buy New: $489.00
as of 3/11/2010 17:50 PST details
New (1) Used (7) from $449.00
Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  1332 reviews
Sales Rank: 6
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 7.2 x 0.4
Model: D00801
UPC: 892685001232
EAN: 0892685001232
ASIN: B0015TG12Q
Release Date: January 19, 2010
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Simple to use: no computer, no cables, no syncing. | | • | Wireless connectivity enables you to find, buy, and read instantly—whether you’re in the back of a taxi, at the airport, or in bed. | | • | Shop the Kindle Store directly from your Kindle. | | • | Buy a book and it is auto-delivered wirelessly in less than one minute. |
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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. International Coverage: Enjoy 3G wireless coverage at home or abroad in over 100 countries. 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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A Wonderful Reading Device March 11, 2010
A. Ruano (ATTLEBORO, MA, US)
I think the Kindle is a wonderful product for reading books and its very good on the eyes. I like the features it offers and would recommend it to anyone thinking about purchasing one. In a little over a month I have read almost 12 books and I can say that it has been more than probably a years worth as opposed to paper books. I think that for the price of the item, it is missing some required features and little bells. I will mention them what I think the devise is missing and requires: It needs an easy way to organize your books by either date, alphabet, date of purchase, etc. It does give you the option to archive your purchased items in the amazon site but not in the kindle itself. It is not a real issue but when you have many books, your archived books in your devices should be separated with unread items. There should be a feature either password protected or what have you to store items in the Kindle Locked without options to delete or archive, ei dictionary, bible what fancies you. Some books and items suck and are not copied entirely and are missing the little illustrations that sometimes a book may have in between chapters. A Built in clock with date that you can organize and use a a little planner. I purchase a calendar planner and the dates of it work. Don't try to use the planner for any type of planning as typing in it is horrible and not useful. I think I gave a bunch of little examples of little bells and whistles the devise is missing. Having said that, they are tiny things compared to the pleasure the kindle has brought to me for reading. Do yourself a favor, If you are int he market for one BUY IT. You will not regret it, I promise.
 Love It March 11, 2010
Mike
The 9.7" Kindle is wonderful. I like the bigger screen size and the ease at which I can get books. The only downside of these type of readers can be a glare on the screen, but that is minimul. Many people I know wonder if their eyes will begin to hurt similar to when staring at a computer screen for to long. The type of screen used on the Kindle is nothing like a computer screen. The Kindle screen is like reading a book, no strain on the eyes what so ever. It is portable and can hold all of my books versus carrying eight books around. It is also my small way of making a dent in the number of trees we cut down as I am no longer buying paper books. Great product and highly recommended.
 So, will Amazon listen and fix all these problems for Kindle 3 and Kindle 3 DX? March 11, 2010
Lawyn C. Edwards (Florida)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I haven't bought one yet because of all of the shortfalls and mistakes. I did not buy a Kindle 1 becasue I wanted K2, where it would be fixed. Didn't work. I have hassles with other eReaders also, so haven't bought one of them for myself either (have bought two for family members who wanted something now and only needed the book and storage capabilities - needed good pdf for military manuals), waiting for one of them to add the wikipedia access. Now, I am beginning to think Amazon is not listening, and that the chances that K3 will have fixed the shortcomings and problems is low. Why pay the price and accept the lunacy of proprietary formats if they are not listening, not taking care of customers, and not figuring it all out on their own? Is anyone from Amazon out there that will provide truthful answers rather than the Amazon.com propaganda page? They certainly do not admit to the identified limitations of their equipment on their sites.
Renewed pleasures of reading March 11, 2010
R. Barreirinhas
It is like discovering the pleasures of reading all over again, in a new and exciting way. It's easy to read, very light (great for bed reading)and the American Classics are sold almost for free. Unfortunately, the magazines have no images for us, Brazilian subscribers and there are very few books available in our own language (Portuguese), for now, I hope.
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.
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