[eboyhan]

I think we will see at least one more kindle announcement over the next four to six weeks before xmas 2010. It could be an increased feature "K3", or it could be a dirt cheap K2 (most desirable price point would be $100). I haven't got a clue as to which way they'll jump.

There is an internal dev project code named "Shasta" that comes in two flavors: with wifi and without. You can google on shasta+kindle to get what additional info exists.

The one thing I wish they would do is provide a PDF reader capable of reflowable font size changes equivalent to the Adobe or Nitro PDF readers. If they did that, I would truly be in hog heaven.

EDIT: I've been really digging in to the preparation of PDFs for use on my DX US. I've come to realize that neither the Adobe nor the Nitro readers on the PC are reflowable -- it's just that the target page size of most PDFs is smaller than the physical screen size on which PC PDF readers display so considerable zooming is possible.

The DX screen size is roughly A5 paper size which is smaller than the page size of many PDFs -- this causes the kindle to scale the page down to fit, and font sizes become too small to be comfortably readable. Adobe does have a reflowable PDF specification which is used in some phones, but a lot of PDFs are not compatible with it. Many textbooks and technical books are typeset to page sizes close to A5 so readability of these is not too bad.

There are quite a few things that can be easily done to prepare PDFs for reading on the DX. There is not a one size fits all for every document source. I am preparing what I have learned, and when finished I will post it in this forum.