This shopping process stands in stark contrast to the lethargic, text-only web browser and book navigation, where unresponsive buttons, a fiddly joystick and sluggish page turns are the order of the day mobi format ebooks work as smoothly as Amazon's proprietary AZW files, and PDFs render quickly with plenty of detail, although you can't annotate, rotate or zoom in.īuying books and periodicals from Amazon's online store is swift and simple, and it will be the disciplined reader who doesn't find themselves downloading just one more title using the (free) wireless connection. The DX works well with other formats: text documents and. You can add bookmarks and notes to books and magazines, "clip" articles and blog entries to read later, and search any of your items for words or phrases. There are compensations for working digitally, of course. The physical appeal of browsing headlines and flicking through sections is reduced to a tediously linear slog, much like reading the thousands of blogs you can also subscribe to.
The formatting of newspapers (including the Independent, the Times and the Financial Times, from the UK) remains basic, with a single column, no crossheads and a clunky menu system. That's considerably smaller than a full-sized textbook, let alone a Berliner-format paper such as the Guardian.
Its 9.7in screen, while larger than its predecessor, still only provides the reading area of a large paperback. Pictures also benefit from extra room, despite a grainy monochrome reproduction. The largest font size (you can alter it at the touch of a button) has letters that are nearly 0.5cm tall and virtually leap off the screen. As with the original Kindle ($359), the DX uses e-ink technology to deliver crisp text that is extremely easy on the eye.
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