Amazon Kindle DX review
Amazon Kindle DX review by Nilay Patel , posted Jun 19th 2009 at 4:15PM Here's the one-line summary of the Kindle DX : It's a Kindle 2 with a larger screen, hair-trigger orientation sensor, and an awful keyboard. Seriously awful. Yes, we know we should be focused on things like PDF support or even content partners like newspapers and textbook publishers, but we're having a hard time getting over the keyboard -- it's emblematic of some puzzling design choices Amazon made with the Kindle DX. What do we mean? Read on. First things first -- yep, the screen's bigger. At 9.7 inches, it's basically the size of the entire Kindle 2, which allows for some adorable family photos, but also means that it's the size of most paperback books -- reading a book on the DX feels entirely more like reading a novel, because you're seeing the same amount of content on each page. It's actually quite noticeable. All that added screen real estate ain't free, of cou...