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True enough the release schedule was strange :
1/ Whether the KDXG was designed for A4 PDF reading, and in this case, there is no reason why it should not have enjoyed the 3.0 firmware enhancements (contrast would be especially nice). I mean, Amazon people knew that K3 had nicer PDF support, so why not develop it for their PDF reader ?
2/ Whether the KDXG was designed to be a bigger K2, and then Amazon is both stupid in terms of business and misleading towards a part of their fan base, mainly academic people who read a lot of A4-formatted documents.
I am globally satisfied with my KDXG although I'm using it from France, have access to english wikipedia only and very few French titles. The PDF support is nice, but there is definitely some room for improvements. For instance, nudging when zooming at 200% is way too uncomfortable, and you have to dezoom and rezoom again to adjust a two-column layer. That's difficult to use and practically reduces to 0 the utility of 200% zooming. If Amazon (or anybody else) tells me that correcting this would be a "new feature", then there is absolutely no doubt that 1/ they're dumping trash on their customers 2/ they will get out of the market, nonetheless their overwhelming presence in the online edition. There is still a huge academic market to develop (so few medical textbooks available !), and if Amazon doesn't want to do it, then please tell us right now !
Cheers,
jdif
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