[Xavier6162]

Well I finally got my Kindle DX yesterday and I have some comments. Before I found out I had it in hand I checked my Amazon account and discovered hat the Kindle had already been registered to me. Strange...I didn’t have it yet. There was a User Guide on my account waiting to be sent to the KDX. So...I sent it and received a Successful Upload confirmation.

Sooo….I looked for and added a free Amazon book to my Kindle account and sent that to my KDX too.

Discovered there was a boxed Kindle waiting for me when I got home a few hours later. When I turned it on it was already registered to me. Cool. And the User’s Guide and that other book I downloaded were already on the KDX. Brilliant.

When others say this thing is heavy they aren’t kidding. Not a deal killer but it is something noticeable. After long readings I find myself propping it up for comfort. I connected it to the Amazon leather cover…and it was easy. Took awhile before it was perfectly aligned and connected. The cover will easily allow one to do it wrong and I can see how one could crack the case if it’s not done correctly. Just in case, I used Velcro on the back of the KDX/Leather cover. Won’t catch me opening this thing from the wrong end (which is easy to do)

The screen is a really nice size. I like it. I understand that the entire size of the K2 is the same size as the KDX’s screen. If that’s the case it would seem that the K2 would be a little harder to read for some like me with failing eyesight.

Despite the larger screen size I still find myself flipping pages more often than on a regular book. I can imagine that such frequent page turning would become very irritating on the much smaller K2 screen.

Did I say that the KDX is heavy?

The keyboard is not the easiest item to use. It turns a 4 finger 1 t thumb typist to a 2 index finger typist. But it works. You have to lay the Kindle down to do any amount of typing. 1 Because of the keyboard and 2 this thing is a little on the heavy side.

Spent about 3 hours yesterday reading the User’s Guide through Chapter 6 and testing all the features I read about. Including allowing the KDX to read to me. Which wasn’t bad. But the voice has a hard time pronouncing Kindle.

Went on to the chapter on Web Browsing. And I spent the next three hours browsing the Web. Spent about an hour reading about Roman Wars on Wikipedia. Visited all my other favorite sites and forums. Actually logged onto a couple forums and posted one message. Wow...but wasn’t all the easy with the KDX keyboard. Booked marked a few sites. Did a lot of reading on my favorite news sites…which were already on the KDX.

Tried to connect the KDX to my computer but the USB thingy wasn’t long enough to register with the PC. It was long enough to allow recharging but not long enough for the PC to accept it as an external device. So I used an adapter I had sitting around. The KDX shows up as a Kindle drive. And I immediately downloaded about 190 mobi Since Fiction books I just happen to have laying around (free down loads from another source).

Took my KDX into work this morning with the intent on adding music…but I forgot the USB plug. I did bring the adapter (just in case) but what good is that now. Since I’m only (at this moment) 75% complete on the User’s Guide, the KDX is propped up against my PC allowing me to read and work at the same time.

Overall this is a pretty decent device. Did 6 hours of reading just yesterday alone. Haven’t done that in years. I’m glade I got the larger size screen. Because as I hate the frequent page change now, I can only imagine how irritating/frustrating a smaller screen would be.

On…did I mention that this thing is heavy? It’s gonna take a day or so to get use to that.