Amazon releases the rumoured large-screen Kindle
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#2I'll consider getting one of these things when TAOCP looks decent in it.
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#3I hope there is a way to disable auto-rotation for reading in bed. That is a big pet peeve with my iphone.
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#4I hope there is a way to disable auto-rotation for reading in bed. That is a big pet peeve with my iphone.
There seems to be. From the manual at http://s3.amazonaws.com/kindle/KindleDX_Users_Guide.pdf
The screen changes automatically when you rotate your Kindle from portrait to landscape or vice versa. Or, you can lock your screen to a particular orientation to fit your reading position.
However, since this is a much bigger device, I am not sure if reading in bed is going to work the same way it does for the iPhone.
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#5Even though I probably won't buy one anytime soon, I'm much more excited about the big one for $500 over the little one for $350.
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#6You know what would be awesome? The same thing ... but even bigger. Gotta love creative engineering and lazy product evolution.
No in all honesty this new Kindle looks pretty awesome, but also a little ridiculous when held compared with other electronics.
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#7You know what would be awesome? The same thing ... but even bigger. Gotta love creative engineering and lazy product evolution. No in all honesty this new Kindle looks pretty awesome, but also a little ridiculous when held compared with other electronics.
I just want them to get rid of the keyboard. Isn't there some rule about size vs time-you-actually-spend-using-the-feature? At its present size, I'd say that if you're not using the keyboard 1/4 of the time you're using the Kindle, then it's too big.
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#8The killer feature is that it reads PDFs natively now (i.e., without having to convert them). For someone who prefers to read on screen and who has to read a lot of PDFs, this is very exciting.
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#9Based on the price of this one, I think we'll see the small Kindle go down in price soon. Because right now it doesn't make any sense to buy the small one.
I still wont' buy one, chances are they'll release a color version in a couple of months, thats the next obvious step
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#10Can you load your own .txt files onto this? This is actually big enough to carry & review my source code without booting up a laptop.