Kindle dx pdf reader zoom

Editor's rating : Discuss this product Where to Buy. What's not: Doesn't support as many formats natively as Sony Readers. It replaces the DX reviewed here.

The DX looks, feels and acts much like its smaller brother—in fact the physical resemblance is uncanny. Like the Kindle and Kindle 2, the DX works with ebooks sold by Amazon over , as of this writing and. The 9. Like the Kindle 2, the DX has 16 shades of gray but images look better thanks to the larger display. The Kindle can rotate to landscape mode in fact it can rotate in all 4 directions , which is useful for PDFs.

The Sony models require a button press to rotate, while the Kindle DX has an accelerometer so you need only turn the ebook reader to rotate the display. The accelerometer is sensitive but not overly so, and you can disable this feature if it bothers rather than helps and use a menu to switch orientation instead. The keyboard area itself is smaller, so that the device could be as small as possible. The page turn buttons are only on the right side the Kindle 2 has them on both sides.

This may annoy those who regularly use the left side buttons on the Kindle 2, but as a leftie, I always use the buttons on the right. You can rotate the display upside down to move the buttons to the left side the joystick reorients itself when you rotate the Kindle DX-- nice.

Of course, the keyboard is difficult to use when the DX is upside down! The display, as with all e-ink screens, is incredibly sharp and easy on the eyes with none of that laptop glare or eye-tiring 60Hz screen refresh. Still, the Kindle DX has an excellent display for reading text and one can read for hours on end without suffering eyestrain.

As with the Kindle 2, there are 6 text sizes to choose from press the Aa button to select the size , and one standard system font for body text the same font as the Kindle and Kindle 2. The font sizes are the same as the smaller Kindle, but obviously it displays more words per page given the larger screen, making the large print option more tolerable.

How about PDF documents? I can't see the point of zoom on the DX - except only when the text is formatted in two or more columns. When I read pdf's with the adobe reader I almost always do it in portrait mode with black bars on the left and right sides. I can change with adobe reader how pc screen real estate is used, or I can zoom the fonts and reflow as described above.

On the kindle its reader attempts to use all screen real estate all the time. Unless the pdf was created with the KDX in mind, you don't get very readable results. You are right that the zoom as implemented by Amazon isn't all that useful except perhaps for blowing up complex diagrams, figures, or pictures.

Read on the DX in landscape mode is a little better save that there isn't very much text on each page, and paging forwards and backwards pdf's while in landscape mode is very much slower than the same operation in portrait mode. I have zero experience with regular kindles -- perhaps zoom and pan is more usable on those smaller devices. I only hope that Amazon soon comes out with a more useful PDF reading capability either on existing, or new devices. Amazon needs a pdf reader at least as good as Adobe's -- the current kindle processors, however, may not be fast enough to support such a reader.

Last edited by eboyhan; at AM. All times are GMT The time now is AM. Mark Forums Read. Zooming on the DX. Pages can be noted upon and saved as clippings and text files. All clippings are added to a single file that can be downloaded over a USB cable to a computer. The Kindle DX has a controversial text-to-speech feature the Authors Guild claims this violates copyright laws. The voice is computer generated and actually sounds fairly decent.

The are 3 speed settings and the choice of a male or female voice. Authors and publishers now determine if this feature is active or not for a specific book. It also supports MP3 playback, as well as audiobooks from Audible. You can listen with the built-in speakers or plug into the headphone jack. Amazon offers several different reading apps to sync Kindle books with an iPad, iPhone, Blackberry, Android, and iPod touch, as well as the new Kindle for PC and Mac software, allowing for quick and easy transfer of books.

It even saves what page you were on so that whichever device you use, you'll be right where you left off when you finished reading the last time. All your books are automatically backed up by Amazon, but personal files and side-loaded files aren't. The next simplest case is text-based PDFs. Calibre handled the text better. Paragraphs were set off from each other with whitespace, headings were bold and also separated from paragraphs.

The Amazon conversion eliminated whitespace between paragraphs, as well as before and after headings. Calibre also forced all fonts to the same size. Amazon preserved relative font sizes. This might seem like an advantage, but this had the effect of pumping up the font size of the body text of most of the document! The overall effect was painfully unreadable. Footnotes are a little problematic. They end up appearing as regular text, as if you read down the page and just kept going from the last line of body text into the footnotes, then continued reading at the top of the next page.

I also converted a short but more complex PDF document with embedded images and tables. The images were mostly bar charts with some explanatory text. With regards to image display, Amazon did a better job. Or rather, the Amazon converter did what it was supposed to do. Calibre did display the images, but as mirror images! Not very useful. Neither converter did a good job with tables.

Both of them stacked the columns and printed the result as regular body text no borders or other formatting , one column after the other. Utterly unusable. The 9. In fit-to-screen mode, the Kindle will display the PDF at the maximum possible size while still showing one entire page.