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Originally Posted by SoCalReader
I will be ordering a DX to evaluate it for the sole reason of reading PDF articles, but have no plans on purchasing books from Amazon because of their insistence of using non-industry standard format.
If the 13.3 Sony is released, given the number of documents I currently print out, it too will be worth investigating.
Fine print: Again, this is my experience with my electronic reading objectives. Clearly other people will not agree with me and I'm more than happy if they can point me to a solution that works better for me.
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As a longtime dxg user I agree with most of your opinions. Like you I used to be kinda annoyed being locked into Amazon for e-books but I have gotten over this now. This is because I have found that Amazon has the best selection and most of my junk-reading books are free anyway. I just have a look at this link once in a while for something that interests me;
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-K...ding=UTF8&tf=1
While I mainly (+90%) use my dxg as a simple ebook reader I also have a number of technical manuals pdf's that I find very handy when I don't have my laptop pc readily available. Most of the simple pdf's translate very well on the 9 inch dxg and are much more readable than on my 6 inch Kindle Keyboard.
There is a very useful app that lets you convert pdf's into much nicer to read pdf's. It's called k2pdfopt and you can read about this here;
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=144711
I've tried this on a few hard to read pdf's and it works very well. Best thing it's a free app and does not require any hacks.
If you have 3g coverage the dxg makes it very easy to buy books and do a little basic (preferably mainly text based) web browsing.
For travelling I use a simple/cheap ebay10 inch netbook case. The dxg with it's Amazon dxg leather cover fits perfectly.
I't's a real shame that Amazon appears to be dropping the dxg imho. Anyway, I have another one ordered as a backup to my +3yo dxg.
Cheers,
Tom