Kindle DX now available in UK

To celebrate the sudden outbreak of crystalline precipitation currently falling on Britain, Amazon.com has announced it'll now ship an international version of its massive, designed-for-newspapers-and-textbooks Kindle to the UK -- the Kindle DX.

In principle it's the same as the standard Kindle (which we reviewed late last year), but features a larger 246mm (9.7-inch) E-Ink screen. "Kindle DX is great for personal and professional documents, cookbooks and textbooks -- anything that is highly formatted," Amazon says.

It also now supports Adobe PDF files natively (Kindles previously needed to have these converted to a format it liked), so pre-formatted pages of text, images and diagrams involve significantly less messing about. Up to 3,500 books can be stored in memory, Amazon claims, and the battery should let you read for a full week without charging.

The Kindle DX for UK features the same built-in wireless bookstore as the standard Kindle, including free wireless downloads via the device's integrated 3G modem. Its screen -- which only requires power to turn pages, not to keep displaying them -- can generate 16 shades of grey. Sony's Readers, by contrast (ha), use just eight. This means images look far better on Kindles.

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Amazon Kindle ClearTouch Anti-Glare Screen Protector

You Kindle or E-book reader is something that you would want to take care of. It's one of those gadgets that are pricey but very useful. In fact, you get to use it almost everyday. You of course don't want to wear down your gadget because of the daily use, so why not gear up with the right protective gear to ensure your gadget's safety. The Amazon Kindle ClearTouch Anti-Glare Screen Protector (Single Pack) is something you'll want to get. ClearTouch Anti-Glare's numerous features will greatly enhance your Amazon Kindle's display and provides you with more than protection from scratches! Don't worry about touching your screen often, especially when you need to, with this protector, your Kindle will remain scratch-free longer than you alone can manage.

Technical Details:

Award Winning Anti-Glare Amazon Kindle Screen Protector

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Bubble-free Application

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Sized to specifically fit the Amazon Kindle

Amazon Kindle Leather Cover (Fits 6" Display, Latest Generation Kindle)

With the Kindle out on the market, no doubt every techie person out there has got their hands on one of them already. Just like a laptop with laptop sleeves, it would be nice to get your Kindle a cover of its own. What with it being a gadget, it is surely something you would like to carry around and bring to school or other places. It would be best to protect it with something, after all, you did pay a good price for it.

The Amazon Kindle Leather Cover, designed by Amazon, is the official and prescribed leather book cover for your Kindle (2nd Generation). It is not only stylish and classy looking, it is also very functional as it offers optimum protection and comfort for your Kindle use. The genuine black leather on the outer part is definitely the material you can trust for protection. The soft charcoal interior will do no harm to your Kindle and lay no scratch on it. Just attach you kindle to the patent-pending hinge, and your Kindle will stay firmly in place and you are good to go!

Kindle Wireless Reading Device (6" Display, Global Wireless, Latest Generation)

The Kindle wireless reading device is every new generation bookworm's dream. Now you can carry around 1,500 books in on hand. This handy device is a dream for every book-loving traveler. Now you can go to places with over 420,000 books available for purchase at the Kindle Store. You can have your book copy in under 60 seconds, and in any language you prefer! Isn't that awesome?

You can also easily download the first few chapters of books and have a read before you decide to whether purchase it or not. You can read the first few chapters absolutely free of charge! It has paper-like display features so you never totally get rid of the feeling of reading from an actual book! And without glare as well. E-books can be purchased at low prices. And as mentioned, there are a lot of books you can choose from. Now life's, once again, bit more easier thanks to technology! Now be an E-bookworm and grab yourself a Kindle Wireless Reading Device (6" Display, Global Wireless, Latest Generation).

Sony Reader vs. Kindle!

Amazon's Kindle has been slaughtering the e-book reader niche market and is currently sitting on top of the mountain. Other companies have been trying to get them off it, but so far no one's been able to do it. Sony is putting their name into the hat and is entering the game with not one, but two e-readers! The PRS-300, called the Pocket and the PRS-600, otherwise known as the Touch.

The specs are as follows:

The latter (pictured left, not to scale) is the 6-inch resistive touchscreen model replacing the PRS-700, with Memory Stick / Duo and SD card slots. The backlighting layer from its predecessor has been dropped to improve touch responsiveness and to alleviate concerns of glare. It also comes packing a stylus and a digitized copy of the Oxford American English Dictionary and will be available in red, black, and silver. The Pocket Edition, on the other hand, is your standard fare with no touchscreen or expandable disk port, and palettes including blue, silver, and rose. Both models have USB 2.0, 512MB internal memory, and no WiFi whatsoever -- Sony assures us a WiFi version is coming and there'll be news on those coming soon, but this isn't it. There's also Mac compatibility, a first for the series, that's trickling down to older models via a firmware update.

Sony's really risking it all just to beat Kindle! Besides putting in two gadgets against the Kindle, they're also pricing it lower: The Pocket at $ 199 and the Touch at $ 299. They're also dropping the Bestseller prices from $ 11.99 to $ 9.99. Personally, I would prefer with the Pocket not just because its cheaper, but also because it seems more pocket friendly (hence the name?) as I really have no use for a touchscreen right now (especially if you have an iPhone or iPod touch). This goes then to my next query: why two devices? Isn't it better to have one quality product where they can focus their Research & Development and their marketing on?

Does this mean that this will beat Kindle? Will Sony's de-pricing beat the Amazon brand behemoth?

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