[tapar]

I have a kindle 1.0 and have put it to heavy use. I have been looking at the kindle DX and it's new autoflip feature and trying to decide if that is a good thing or a bad thing, also wondering if it can be disabled.

The best use was shown in crunchgear's hands on video. It lets you rotate the unit so it is upside down. This puts the next/prev buttons on the left so you can use your left hand. I switch hands when I am putting in a long reading session so that helped me feel much more comfortable about there being no left side buttons.

I was going to suggest that doing a landscape view would zoom in on the text a bit making it easier to read, but it won't change the font size so it will just display more text horizontally in that mode. Sure it is good for pictures and charts but that is a minimal concern for me.

The iphone uses this model for web browsing. I both love and hate it there as well. The detection hardware doesn't always trigger when I tilt the unit, causing me to right it, then re-tilt till it finally takes. Very frustrating when it happens. They are modeling this feature after the iphone from the look of it and I wonder how sensitive it will be? I would get annoyed with it changing in the middle of reading a page because I tilted just a bit too far. Especially with the noticeable refresh times and the brief page flash, just enough to break your eye line and cause you to loose your place briefly. All the hands on videos I have seen were careful to make the switch on purpose, I didn't get a feel for how sensitive it is.

What do you guys think? I think I would be stuck using it to enable left hand use, but I am not sure I would like it otherwise...I would have preferred left side buttons. lol.