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So, I kicked the tires on my new Kindle DX a bit, and now I want to kick the person who made the decision to cripple PDF support.
I tried a few PDFs, and about half showed O.K.. The rest were too small, with huge margins, which could be trimmed with a little zooming, if zoom was available.
But, overall, the PDF experience is extremely disappointing. Bordering on useless, frankly.
You really can't do anything, except look at the page. No footnotes, TOC, or other hyperlinks. No dictionary support. As someone mentioned previously, the K DX implementation has almost nothing of what makes PDF such good format - it's basically a picture viewer.
Otherwise, the screen is nice - much more book-like experience than the K2.
The keyboard design is idiotic, since people use numbers often enough to navigate around a book, and number punching on the K DX is a real chore, particularly in bed. There seems to be enough space for another row of buttons, to accommodate the numbers keys.
Right now, I am disappointed enough to return it. And unless someone tells me, that Amazon will implement PDF better soon, I think the K DX might be going back.
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