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What I can tell you is this. I am an academic (I teach Latin American History at our largest local university), and I read a lot of academic articles on my DX. Books, too, but you asked about articles. I read tons of them. The DX is absolutely perfect for this. The size is just right that you can read them without adjusting size and all that. What the kindle does not do (DX or otherwise) is allow you to log on to your university library and read these articles directly. You have to log on, download what you need, and transfer them via USB or email. It's a fairly minor issue. But in terms of readability, it is completely perfect. I do almost all of my reading on my kindle these days. I also keep my lecture notes there, as well as papers I give at conferences.
If we could get amazon to engineer its browser so that it could access university libraries and the main academic journal databases (for me that would be stuff like JSTOR) directly, my life would be perfect. It's really the only ability I truly wish it had and does not. I owned a sony before, but the screen size was too small for what I needed (academic books and articles). The DX fixed this for me and has been worth every penny.
Hope that helps.
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