I’m on order. The potential of the Kindle DX was just too great to leave unexplored. Having manuals, usually in PDF, handy on one easy to use device will be a good thing. Nearly all vendors distribute their documentation in PDF; even when you get a CD with the documents, they’re PDFs. Firing up Acrobat and wading through docs on a new product has always been hard for me; I can’t easily highlight and bookmark pages of interest, and I’m stuck reading on a computer screen.
I’ve even resorted to sending important documents to Kinko’s, and having them printed and bound. Not only is that pricey(one manual costs around $30, depending on length), but the spiral binding wears out over time. Then there’s the problem of finding storage space for these volumes. Oh, and when V 2.0 of product X hits the streets, the manuals are now obsolete. On the Kindle, delete and archive the old, load up the new.
MLB has expressed an interest in the Kindle 2, and she will be taking that over after the DX arrives later this summer. She’s already pointed out that the DX is my “Happy Father’s Day, Happy Anniversary, Happy Birthday, and Merry Christmas” present for the year. I’m OK with that.
-k-
I love it, Ken – you “waited and watched” a whole two days.
If I ever get in a situation where I have to have lots of manuals again, you can bet I’m getting one of these, too.
Scott:
I’d seen some stories about how the DX was going to be offered at a reduced rate for WaPo, NY Times, and Boston Globe subscribers who lived out of the home delivery area. We can’t qualify for the WaPo, and absolutely don’t want either of the other two. And seeing that the Kindle/Kindle 2 prices haven’t changed in their lifetimes, I concluded the same would hold true for the DX.
And MLB decided she’d like to have the K2, most of her reading titles not containing the phrase “Definitive Guide”, “Installation Guide”, or “Administrators Guide”.
The DX should be a sweet device, and I can still read my
subversivefree-market literature on it.-k-
I really want to hear how you feel about reading novels on it. Not that I’d consider changing, but I’m interested in how the page size change measures up.
PS Thanks again for pushing me over the edge on the K2. I can’t stop talking about it. I bought my mother one for Mother’s Day after she spent two hours with mine downloading samples.
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