List Price: $489.00
Sale Price: None available, Amazon is the only place you may buy this product.
Retailer: Amazon, this unit is only available through Amazon and they sell so many there is no way they will drop the price or have a sale for the foreseeable future.

              

Kelly’s Review

 
The Kindle DX is like the flagship ereader. It’s based on the original Kindle ereader design, but it’s been expanded, a bigger screen size, more memory and an amazing display that reads like a real book. It also has an auto rotate feature for viewing in portrait or landscape. It’s screen size is huge at 9.7″, the whole thing is a bit bigger than a sheet of paper, but less than a third of an inch thick.
 
The Kindle is like the iPod, on paper it’s specs seem similar to it’s competition, but using the device, everything just feels so polished, so smooth, so intuitive. It’s got fast load times, buying and then viewing books couldn’t be faster or easier. It also has a text-to-speech feature that will turn any book, magazine or article into an audio recording.
 
Both Kindles now offer 3G internet, meaning you get internet anywhere you can get internet on your cell phone, not just places where you can get a wifi signal for say a laptop, and this isn’t a monthly subscription, this is free wireless internet that you can use to read Wikipedia and browse blogs and read them online. They also now offer native pdf support, so getting any content you own, whether it be a public domain book, some school assignment, whatever, you can easily convert most of these documents to pdf (if aren’t already) and load them onto your Kindle the same way you’d load songs onto an iPod.Another feature that I have listed in the features below, but should mention is the text to speech feature, I don’t really use it, so that’s why I overlooked it here, but it’s a key feature. Simply put you grab some headphones and any book you have becomes a book on tape as the Kindle will read it back to you.
 
Finally, both Kindles includes image and music support, so you can load picture to view (which are greyscale or play music while you read your book, so it can double as an ipod, though the store is much smaller, I usually keep a few of my favorite albums on it just in case I feel like some music.
 
Where the DX beats the 2 is, of course, screen area, which is 2.5 times bigger, while it’s not a big deal for a standard novel, as you simply have less text on the page, which leads to more page turns, which isn’t so terrible. However, I’ve found using pdf textbooks (which are fairly common) with diagrams or any newspaper or blog with images, basically as soon as you get away from pure text, the DX screen size becomes a huge advantage, as you can still read a page like it would look in a textbook, or line, because the screen itself is bigger than most textbooks.
 
The keyboard on the DX is also a bit easier to work with, the layout is just better, I found myself making less mistakes and typing with greater ease.
 
Other than that the two are the same in terms of functionality and performance.
 
If you’re looking for the best ereader around and have the money, you must get the Kindle DX.
 

Amazon Kindle DX Stats

• Slim: Just over 1/3 of an inch, as thin as most magazines
• Carry Your Library: Holds up to 3,500 books, periodicals, and documents
• Beautiful Large Display: 9.7″ diagonal e-ink screen reads like real paper; boasts 16 shades of gray for clear text and sharp images
• Auto-Rotating Screen: Display auto-rotates from portrait to landscape as you turn the device so you can view full-width maps, graphs, tables, and Web pages
• Built-In PDF Reader: Native PDF support allows you to carry and read all of your personal and professional documents on the go
• Wireless: 3G wireless lets you download books right from your Kindle DX, anytime, anywhere; no monthly fees, no annual contracts, and no hunting for Wi-Fi hotspots
• Books In Under 60 Seconds: You get free wireless delivery of books in less than 60 seconds; no PC required
• Long Battery Life: Read for days without recharging
• Read-to-Me: With the text-to-speech feature, Kindle DX can read newspapers, magazines, blogs, and books out loud to you, unless the book’s rights holder made the feature unavailable
• Big Selection, Low Prices: Over 360,000 books, newspapers, magazines, and blogs; New York Times Best Sellers and New Releases are only $9.99, unless marked otherwise
• More Than Books: U.S. and international newspapers including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, magazines including The New Yorker and Time, plus popular blogs, all auto-delivered wirelessly