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Originally Posted by max99
the DXG is an amazing reader. this fact makes it all the more perplexing and frustrating that amazon have dropped support for it.
i have saved literally 100s of pounds side-loading pdfs on this reader you simply can't read on a 6 inch screen. so many artistic or technical books from internet archives can't be displayed properly in native kindle format, so a good pdf reader is a must for me. i particularly enjoy reading older books in their native typesetting via pdf.
like others have said, if you get a DX make sure to update to the hacked 3.2.1 firmware as it does the very things amazon were too lazy to do - better pdf support and improvements to the standard reader software.
enjoy.
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My guess is that Amazon doesn't find a good market in ebook readers, rather their market is in Amazon content consumption devices. They offer low prices on the K4's because they assume they will lead to increased purchases of content from Amazon.
From Amazon's viewpoint, there is no value to a large format reader that's sole purpose is to sideload pdf's. I suspect any large format device will follow in the Fire's tradition in that it will support Amazon video and app market via an LCD screen.