Princeton Kindle DX Pilot Program

[zerospinboson]

Originally Posted by sirbruce

My 928MB of books (about 1200) created 545MB of indexes. I suspect some of those may be indexes for books I've deleted but generally each book takes up half as much space again for its index, so yeah about 1/3 of the availble 1.4GB of memory will be used for indexes and 2/3 for books.

Sounds like a pretty feature that assumes that people won't be putting too many books on the device.

[sirbruce]

Originally Posted by zerospinboson

Sounds like a pretty feature that assumes that people won't be putting too many books on the device.

I'm more curious if there's some sort of weekly "clean-up" job that eliminates indexes for books that are not longer on the device. Deleting a book via the Kindle menu may or may not delete the index, but deleting it via USB certainly doesn't. Unfortunately there's no clear way to figure out which index file is associated with which book, plus there's other stuff stored in a single central database file as well.

[ProDigit]

For a select group this can be a good test, but I don't expect all schools to follow up any time soon.
A lot of schools have problem youngsters, that love destroying those expensive toys, and steal others.
I don't think anyone would want to steal a binder or a book from someone in school, but a kindle is a different story...

[ylsul]

Kindles yet to woo University users

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/09/28/23918/

[Hellmark]

This already is being discussed in another thread. No need to gravedig.

[zerospinboson]

Originally Posted by Hellmark

This already is being discussed in another thread. No need to gravedig.

It might be helpful to link to the other thread. This thread suddenly re-appeared in my watch list (past posts), but I myself haven't the faintest where the discussion is being held currently (and so might other people)..

[dmaul1114]

Here's the current thread.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57763

[fugazied]

Originally Posted by sirbruce

The problem is the DX isn't indexing the PDFs, nor allowing notetaking, highlight, etc. in the associated metadata file. Basically they haven't integrated PDFs into the Kindle software at all; they just slapped third-party PDF display ability onto it.

Yep, which really limits the usefulness compared to having a PDF on a mac/windows laptop.

This is a major limitation for the Kindle in the educational sector. Until they rectify this, you are better off getting a 13" laptop for college work. The potential is there, but Amazon is dropping the ball at the moment.

[zerospinboson]

Originally Posted by fugazied

This is a major limitation for the Kindle in the educational sector. Until they rectify this, you are better off getting a 13" laptop for college work.

You would've been better off if it would have been a DR1000 Pilot. It is a heck of a lot more usable than the DX, in any case. ;-)

The potential is there,

But Amazon doesn't care to cater to it much.
Still, I wouldn't yet want to trade my PC+iLiad combo for a single device.