http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Aijb...eature=related
Seems pretty honest and practical. Interesting in her take on the KDX not being good for it's target market, allegedly, that is the college student. I think many here have said note taking is imperative and key to study, even with ebooks.
She shows how cumbersome it is to annotate a section...it looks so much so that using the KDX the device becomes the focus rather than the subject being studied.
For that reason alone if I had a kid in school, no chance I would pop for a dedicated reader with such a poorly conceived feature set the KDX. I would gladly pay 2x-3x more for a convertible or a laptop and a slate PC where there are packages dedicated toward note taking as well as reading...enter Pixel Qi I suppose.
Still it's a nice sized device and has potential, just not anywhere near $500 worth though. Might as well have a Sharper Image logo on it for all the real usefulness it actually brings to the table, I mean beyond the size being great.
I really cannot believe Amazon has stuck with that AWFUL keyboard layout over the standard QWERTY that everyone knows...talk about a tool, again, becoming the focus over the use of the tool. Tools/devices need to be transparent to the task for which they are intended. Having to stop and learn another keyboard layout just does not seem to fit that concept.
But, as I said, nice looking device...perfect Sharper Image fodder.