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Well I jumped in and purchased a Kindle DX. It isn’t here yet but I am reading the reviews at Amazon.com of the Kindle 2 and the tweets from Kindle owners on Twitter. What I have read before making my purchase decision leaves me thinking that the public has given it mixed reviews. People love it or are disappointed in it or are somewhere in between.

All I can do at this point is save in my own memory the comments folks are making and make my own decisions later. Granted it was an expensive plunge but this reader and others like it are in my view the shape of things to come. We have to run out of paper eventually

I’m going to watch and see what troubles I have with the service and keep in mind the opinions of others:

@DonMcNay says, If anyone has had a problem with Amazon charging unwanted books to their Kindle and difficult getting refund, email me. May write about.”  (That has me concerned. Over the years I have purchased many things from Amazon and they have never sent me anything I didn’t order. Don is a syndicated columnist so he may know something I don’t.”

What prompted me to make the jump to the Kindle was the PDF file. The DX has support for native PDF. I had been printing mountains of paper. Coast Guard Auxiliary training manuals now come in PDF format. The Boat Crew program literally has a wheel barrel full of heavy books once printed. Even at eighteen ounces the DX would be an improvement and I can take my books with me now.

@tamoor, Examiner.com’s Jay Siegel, Consumer Electronics Examiner wrote about his first experience with the Kindle DX on June 16, 2009. Jay’s article had some concern about the weight and the conversion of some graphics in PDF files. Most of my PDF’s are older text based files with few fancy graphics so I am hopeful I won’t run into that problem. We will see. It would be a significant disatisfier if the simple trusty PDF didn’t display properly most of the time.

@Patti_Oshea wrote, “A Couple Months With My Kindle: I’ve had my Kindle now for about 2 1/2 months now and I love it–a lot. I like b.. (from her blog)

Patti really likes the Kindle and has many reasons that I will share. Setting aside time to read is a problem. Having my books and manuals on the Kindle will make it easier to read. Her concern is one I have read about the earlier Kindles that there is no support for a filing system. I suppose people cope but a device like this should have a way to categorize books so they are easy to find. Patti notes that her reading is often interrupted by persons curious about the Kindle. That I hadn’t thought about   I’m going to look at the storage system after I get mine and offer my own two cents.

There are lots of Kindle users on Twitter. My first TweetDeck Twitter search filled the buffer with on-hundred results. Many were quite informative and several lead to great reads like Don, Jay, and Patti’s.  Well I’m back to reading the Twitter feed and anxiously awaiting a new way to read books. Can’t wait to get my Kindle DX.

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