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Originally Posted by catsittingstill
A kindle that was big enough to read pdfs (and *could* read pdfs natively) would open up a whole new market--anybody who has to read a lot of journal articles. Grad students working on their dissertations. Post-docs writing papers. I had an entire file box full of printed pdfs of journal articles the last time I wrote a paper--it must have weighed 20 pounds and I had to leave it at work because it was too heavy to carry around with me. The thought of a Kindle I could have put them all on (swoons)...
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I'm finishing up my Ph D and will be an assistant professor next year so I was somewhat interested in such a reader.
But after more thought, I'm not so interested as I end up highlighting a ton of stuff and writing notes all over PDFs I print out. Couldn't do that with a large A4 reader--maybe if it was something more like a tablet PC.
So for now I'll just keep printing them out and keeping the PDFs on my jump drive etc. so I can pull them up if I need to look at them outside of the office--which I don't do all that often anyway.
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Originally Posted by Alisa
It will likely be a lot more expensive as well as larger and less portable so I don't think it would really be interchangeable for most people. I would likely get one for work but I'll still be glad I have my little Kindle. If I had to limit myself to just one, it would be the 6" version.
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Same here, I mainly wanted an eBook for reading novels etc., so the portability is key.