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Originally Posted by snowgoose
While we wait for the hoped for 9.7 inch plastic screen Astak ereader, it is interesting to view what others produce. Here is the user guide for the 9.7 inch Kindle DX reader soon to be issued.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...deId=200317150
It has a glass E-inkscreen, and appears to be locked to Amazon wireless system, and so is not much use for non-USA citizens. I for one still await the ASTAK reader with others. The DX does at least permit the display of pdf documents, and a search within the documents. Hopefully the Astak reader will also have similar capabilities; I think that the plastic flexible screens are not yet available, so no user manuals have been provided for these readers. We wait and hope, and encourage Astak, Plastic Logic and others. It is getting more interesting by the month !  |
I thought the e-ink screen was suspected to be glass but hadn't yet been proven to be glass? And I also thought that the jury was out on whether the DX could search within pdf documents; in at least one place the user manual says the DX only searches the metadata of pdfs.
Also, while the DX, like the other Kindles uses Whispernet, I wouldn't describe it as *locked*--all Kindles are perfectly capable of displaying books in .txt and .prc or .mobi formats as long as they don't have non-Amazon DRM and all Kindles are capable of downloading such books over Whispernet or of accepting them via standard USB connection. Since displaying non-DRM books and accepting them via USB is pretty much the standard for most e-book readers, (many of which can also display one or sometimes more types DRMed e-books) the Kindles aren't any more locked than anything else, in my view.
Of course, I have two Kindles, so maybe I'm biased :-) And I certainly *am* interested in the Plastic Logic reader and the EZ reader True, (and any other 9.7 or larger readers that may be hitting the market in the next couple of years) since the DX does not meet my pdf-reading needs without the ability to search, highlight and annotate PDFS.