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blue_skies · 11-24-2011, 07:35 PM

I am very tempted to get one of these. If the price had been this low when I bought my K3 a few months ago, I probably would have bought this larger screen Kindle instead. I tend to use a fairly large font and have to turn the page way more often than I'd like with the K3.

I have one serious issue though and I hope someone here can help me. It's in regard to the auto-rotation. Can the auto-rotation be turned off so that I can set the DX to display the text in landscape mode in one direction and later switch it to landscape display in the other direction without auto-rotation switching it due to its gravity sensors?

I read lying on my side in bed and prefer to read with the text displayed in landscape mode. However, the actual physical device is held in portrait orientation to gravity... so if auto-rotation is on, it would just keep the text switched to portrait display. I need to be able to turn the auto-rotation off, but also be able to set the display to landscape display in both directions.

I hope this is clear enough and someone can clarify this for me. Thanks!

ETA: I found the Users Guide and it can be locked in landscape orientation.

11-24-2011, 07:35 PM	#20
blue_skies Evangelist Posts: 405 Karma: 1143880 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Ohio Device: Mobiscribe Wave B&W; Kindle Scribe; Boyue Mimas & 62+; KindleKeyboard	I am very tempted to get one of these. If the price had been this low when I bought my K3 a few months ago, I probably would have bought this larger screen Kindle instead. I tend to use a fairly large font and have to turn the page way more often than I'd like with the K3. I have one serious issue though and I hope someone here can help me. It's in regard to the auto-rotation. Can the auto-rotation be turned off so that I can set the DX to display the text in landscape mode in one direction and later switch it to landscape display in the other direction without auto-rotation switching it due to its gravity sensors? I read lying on my side in bed and prefer to read with the text displayed in landscape mode. However, the actual physical device is held in portrait orientation to gravity... so if auto-rotation is on, it would just keep the text switched to portrait display. I need to be able to turn the auto-rotation off, but also be able to set the display to landscape display in both directions. I hope this is clear enough and someone can clarify this for me. Thanks! ETA: I found the Users Guide and it can be locked in landscape orientation. Last edited by blue_skies; 11-24-2011 at 07:50 PM.