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Originally Posted by xibalban
Well, let's weigh the Kindle DX out. The things that put me down (to seriously not consider it) were:
1. No SD card - my PDFs can be quite bulky and the non-expandable storage might pose a threat later (applies to the Paperwhite too)
2. Old hardware and slow processing power - perhaps Amazon may like to re-Kindle the specification fire on the DX this fall 
3. Screen resolution too low for this generation.
I do not require scribbling/annotation facilities right now and the use of stylus seems quite unaccustomed to me. Thanks for your inputs!! |
1. I keep almost 100 GB of my pdfs and ebooks on Sony Prs-t1 SD cards and also completely copied on iPads, netbook, laptop, PC, external wi-fi HDD, external HDD, clouds(just free 20GB though), DVDs
, so Kindle DX's 3 GB are quite enough for me wherever I go.
2. I don't really care about e-ink hardware spec. as long as I can flip through any pdf reasonably quickly i.e. 1 sec. per page or screen.
If it sometimes takes 3-4 seconds to turn another pdf page I would always convert those pdfs to bitmaped pdfs or clearscan (using k2pdfopt or Adobe Acrobat) so that I can again flip through them on Kindle DX at about 1 sec. per page or screen.
3. The same for screen resolution, as long as I can read pdfs and djvus comfortably it is good for me.
DX's 150 ppi is the same as Sony DPT-S1's and using fit-to-content-width (i.e. margins cropped) in landscape mode shall even slightly magnify A4 material compared to the paper.
I read pdfs on my iPad 1 almost as frequently as on iPad 4, no matter the screen resolution.