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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Why would Amazon purposely make the DXG less advanced then the K3?
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They didn't make it less advanced than the K3. They made it more advanced than the DX by upgrading the screen. Some would argue that the dark color bezel is also an improvement, especially if you do a lot of reading in sunlight where the white bezel of the older model reflected too much light.
The product line has "forked". The K2 and DX were essentially the same product with different size screens. Amazon chose to develop the K2 further because that size reader is where the majority of sales come from and that size reader is where the competition is working. The DX is a unique product that has no competition because of the display size and now because they chose to upgrade to the pearl display.
The decision to upgrade the DX display may not even have been made by Amazon. The manufacturer may have simply discontinued making the older displays when they developed the Pearl display because the Pearl display performs better and may also be cheaper to make. In that case, Amazon may have had to change the display or quit making the DX.
Whatever reason justified the purchase of the DX at $379 hasn't changed because they upgraded the K3. The DX is still the device you bought. It still does what you bought it to do. If the K3 does something better and you have to have that functionality, then get a K3.
You can get added pdf functionality by installing Duokan. You can't get the DX's big display in anything but a DX, and the big display is the most important feature for reading pdf files.