Arrived!

The Kindle DX arrived, on schedule. The initial charging of the battery is done, the “Welcome Aboard” letter from His Bezosness has been read.

I’ve trained MLB in the usage of the Kindle 2. She’s diggin’ it.

Initial reactions:

• It’s incredibly easy to share books between the two devices. The DX has retrieved content bought on the K2, and is happy to display it.
• I bought a book and had it downloaded to the DX this evening. MLB’s K2 is happy to let her read that one as well, providing she has any interest in Security Monitoring.
• The DX screen is every bit as sharp and crisp as the K2.
• The DX is heavier; I knew that going in. Initially, the heaviness is not an impediment. It’s more of a balance thing; the DX seems bottom heavy. I make this observation after less than a half-hour of using the DX, whilst sitting in my chair, training MLB, drinking a beer, and watching the Stanley Cup Final. I’ll revisit this point.
• The DX auto-rotate feature works nicely, at the expense of some strange page breaks. It is possible to lock portrait/landscape display. This is a Good Thing.
• Initial copying of vendor supplied PDF manuals shows the DX on-board PDF reader does the best job yet of displaying arbitrary PDFs. Once again, some come up smiling, others are less than spectacular. Even the less than spectacular ones are readable. With some tweaking, I think things will improve. My naive hope of blindly copying arbitrary PDF documents over with no intermediate processing has faded somewhat, but the inital DX handling of them gives me hope.

The DX is a keeper. My initial observations are encouraging. I’ll fiddle, tweak, test, and let y’all know how it goes.

-k-

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