Comments on: Details on the soon-to-be announced Amazon Kindle DX surface

By: JakeyBoy

JakeyBoy — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:53:43 +0000

@joe

who

By: joe

joe — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:15:37 +0000

@jakeyboy

Booo

By: mog

mog — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:13:57 +0000

Roger A: “Too many Kindles, too many letter names like DX for too many products.”

Um, this is the only the *third* Kindle model. The second Kindle was a replacement for the first (hence “2″), and this will be sold alongside that (hence “DX,” an established abbreviation for “Deluxe”). If you buy a Kindle tomorrow, your choices will be a 6″ Kindle and a 9.7″ Kindle DX. I don’t think that’s too hard to comprehend.

Joe said: “I freaking hate Amazon. Early adopters get screwed AGAIN….3 months later from the release of the Kindle 2 they release this?? Are you serious?

At least there was about 1.5 years from the release of the original Kindle to the Kindle 2. This is only three months! RIDICULOUS. This means I paid $400 for the Kindle in Nov2007, then another $360 for the Kindle 2 in Feb2009, and now they expect me to shell out another however much…my guess would be $460 for a Kindle DX. Not fair.

Except this isn’t the replacement for the Kindle 2. It’s a new, higher-end model. (I wouldn’t expect it to be a penny less then $499, BTW, and possibly more.)

Do you feel the need to buy every single iPod Apple makes, or every single BlackBerry RIM makes? If not, why do you “have” to buy the new Kindle? Nobody is making you buy it. If you didn’t think the Kindle 2 was a worthwhile upgrade for $360, you shouldn’t have purchased it.

A larger-screen Kindle has been rumored for months (years?) now, by the way. If you didn’t think this was coming when you bought the Kindle 2, you were simply uninformed.

By: JakeyBoy

JakeyBoy — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:15 +0000

Maybe should have been called “Kindle Rx”…lol

By: Diggity

Diggity — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:13:36 +0000

I have a Kindle2 and i read lots of work documentation on it, and i constantly wish that it was bigger and had better PDF formatting support. This is a big deal to me.

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:37:26 +0000

The BORDERS is selling the SONY Reader not Kindle

By: gokmengs

gokmengs — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:22:37 +0000

@Joe;
Its tough I know, but to play devils advocate I don’t think the kindle and this Jumbo reader aimed at the same segment, at least in my opinion, if it is its a huge WTF?

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:05:47 +0000

I freaking hate Amazon. Early adopters get screwed AGAIN….3 months later from the release of the Kindle 2 they release this?? Are you serious?

By: Not Bard

Not Bard — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:48:07 +0000

you sir are an idiot (or just a child who doesn’t know history well enough, especially for someone using the Internet).

One of the first freenets was started by Case, which spawned a large number of freenets all over the place. (think it even preceeded Nyx).

http://wiki.case.edu/Cleveland_Freenet

By: yss

yss — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:12:55 +0000

@damiaking

For me, this is great. I work with c#, VB6, SQL, Crystal, XML and others on a regular basis. I subscribed to O’Reilly’s Safari and get PDFs from them. Being able to carry multi refs books is great. Too bad I wasted money on that stupid eSlick two months ago…

By: JakeyBoy

JakeyBoy — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:38:54 +0000

@Roger A- you been experiencing delays with your Boost Mobile texts?

By: damiaking

damiaking — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:20:13 +0000

i dont understand why people get exited about this things ?? just a black & white piece of crap that you read books on whats so especial about this ?

By: gokmengs

gokmengs — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:15:57 +0000

@jakeyboy
Or better yet tablet pc, netbook etc. I get the kindle but not this kindle XXL, tough sell in my opinion. I think amazon got too excited with the success of kindle

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:07:35 +0000

That sucks, I bought the new kindle this semester for my text books and now this!?

By: llcoolJ

llcoolJ — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:03:32 +0000

In all honesty — why are people acting like they’re excited for this?

By: Queen4111

Queen4111 — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:53:54 +0000

How much will this device cost?

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:50:05 +0000

Black and white is a major crimp in the ability to do illustrations in technical textbooks. (Which is actually what I do all day long, produce textbooks – and at this point we’re moving them online. Color is essential.)

By: Roger A

Roger A — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:48:07 +0000

Too many Kindles, too many letter names like DX for too many products.

Id also like to throw in that Borders in Union Square San Francisco is/was doing so bad last spring that they were selling Kindles at the information desks. Kinda defeats the purpose of a book store to be selling a device that ultimately renders said store obsolete…

By: Bard

Bard — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:33:07 +0000

I go to Case, and this is the first cool thing they’ve ever done. Ever.

By: JakeyBoy

JakeyBoy — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:30:59 +0000

its called “laptop”…