by Jay Garrett on January 6, 2010
Some may say – At Last!
Amazon.com has finally announced that it’s going to ship an international version of its Kindle DX to Blighty.
For those unaware of the Kindle DX – think Kindle but bigger.
It has a 246mm (9.7 inch) E-Ink screen and apparently the “Kindle DX is great for personal and professional documents, cookbooks and textbooks – anything that is highly formatted,” so says Amazon.
The Kindle DX also supports Adobe PDF files whereas before Kindles would’ve had to have PDF’s converted to a format it liked.
You can shove around 3,500 books into the memory and you get a week’s worth of reading before needing to recharge it thanks to power only being required to turn pages and not to read.
Free wireless downloads from the built-in bookstore just like the standard Kindle.
Now, here’s the painful part. Amazon only ships this model from the states so you’ll have to pay an “import deposit” of $89 to start off as well as the $489 asking price.
Oh, don’t forget the $20.98 delivery cost – that should bring you around to a total of $600. That’s £375 Sterling. That might not even include VAT!!!!!
For me I’d wait and see what the Apple and Microsoft tablets offer and how much they cost. I mean, 400 notes for an eReader? Even if they’re outselling regular paper books!
by Jay Garrett on December 30, 2009
It looks like the eReader tag is going to get as confusing as the Netbook is.
My understanding was that an eReader was an e-Ink sporting tablet-esque gadget whos main purpose was to save me carting magazines, newspapers and a load of paperbacks around with me.
Is the gadgety thing still an eReader when it has a colour screen for viewing photos and playing YouTube videos and can play MP3s?
Go ask Paradigm Shift!
Paradigm Shift are bringing two of their confusing eReaders to CES next week: The 5 inch EER-051 and 7 inch EER-071WF. Catchy names eh?
The EER-051 is the more eReadery of the two – it comes with 1GB of flash memory and an SD card slot and will do what you’d expect an eReader to do.
The 7 inch EER-071WF ticks along on Windows CE and will be touchscreen-tastic and the WF points to the fact that it’s also Wi-Fi enabled. This is the one that will get you YouTube, chat to friends using E-Buddy and read Microsoft Word, Excel and PDF documents. You get 2GB internal memory and more thanks to the microSD card slot.
Both of these eReaders will play nice with ANSI, Unicode TXT, DOC, PDF, HTML, FB2, PDB and EPUB ebook formats whilst the 071WF adds a few more.
These Paradigm Shift readers will be available in February: The 5 inch EER-051 will cost $150 (white, blue, periwinkle (?!?), pink, black and silver) and the 7 inch EER-071WF (black and white) for $200 (£125).
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