Kindle DX-Graphite - using the device as an academic PDF reader

As an academic PDF reader, the larger screen of the Kindle DX makes for decent reading of academic papers with or without OCR. While the device is missing some features that would likely be of use for academic readers (e.g., annotation, highlighting, and zoom) the reader does a great jobs facilitating basic PDF reading.

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[alisaad07]

what is the best website to download textbooks that works on kindle dx

and thanks for uploading the video

[wsallen]

@alisaad07 Buying texts through Amazon.com is probably the best option, especially if you want to read them on the Kindle and on your computer using Kindle Reader for Windows or OSX. Then you can synchronize your notes and highlights. But of course, you have to buy them, and they have to be available from Amazon on Kindle, so the selection is limited. If you buy elsewhere they should be epub or PDF.

[jowsmith100]

I think its big to have as a handheld device

[wsallen]

@jowsmith100 it's not very heavy though. The larger screen size makes reading non-text (i.e., non-zoomable files like PDF) much nicer.

[paganSlav]

thank you, your review helped a lot. I had some large files too and turning the screen landscape instead of portrait made it was yeasier to read))) love the kindle, but yeah-organisation is pretty awful, i try to organise mine by name but I have to rename everything while it's on the computer

[wsallen]

@paganSlav You may want to try the Kindle Collection Manager - best workaround available for now: colegate[dot]net

[terryrehabilitation]

This is great for clinic reference use for me, but we'll see how the annotations work for a journal club. I have old references that are scanned images essentially as pdfs, and those worked out perfectly, and could be zoomed or landscaped to see smaller details without problems. I just got one off CraigsList, and it's very easy to export the notations from it to my computer and print them out.

[Ucada]

Thanks for explaining this to me. I'm also thinking about buying it to read through articles as well.

[jowsmith100]

I find it very big. I wouldnt want something so big.

[jrwpork]

Very helpful video; thanks for making it.

[Norrin82]

@joealexandra1110 awesome thanks for the info, need to get one for sure ;)

[joealexandra1110]

@Norrin82 My sister has the Kindle DX and she's using it for school too. She has all her textbooks in it. She scans each chapter every week sends these pages to name@free.kindle.com and all of the PDF scanned files are converted to a kindle file where she can adjust the font size, etc... I'm getting one for myself because I hate bringing all my textbooks to school.