Amazon Kindle DX : an electronic book

Easy reading with autorotation
Reading is very easy for standard books (black text on white background), while turning the page takes about 1 second. We tried to take the experience a little further by adding magazines, comics and audio books to the device. The results were very conclusive, although the comics were limited to black and white with different shades of grey, limiting the colour restitution. The automatic rotation feature (auto, portrait and reversed portrait, landscape and reversed landscape) is a real benefit even if too sensitive. You simply have to turn your Kindle DX for the page to be consequently oriented the same way as the device. The function can also be turned off if you wish through the AA menu. When in landscape mode, the Next and Previous Page buttons no longer correspond to their location, which is rather annoying.

Organizing and opening your documents
The Home button brings together all of the content present on your devices memory, acting as a kind of index displaying all of your books on the home page. You can move the mouse cursor and display any personal documents, subscriptions, books, all files, most recent files and files by title or author, all by clicking on the rotating cursor. It’s a shame though that there is only a single display method of text. A display method using icons would have been a very practical alternative.

The menus adapt according to use
The menu adapts to the page currently being displayed (menu button). On the main menu, you can activate the 3G wireless connection, access the Kindle Store, search content, change the settings, access the experimental functions and synchronise your elements. When reading a book, other relevant functions will be displayed as well. The display of the books cover, return to the beginning, go to page number, search through the document, add a tab or even highlight text and reading notes are all possible. The other possibility for looking for text is to press the space bar and enter keywords with the keyboard.

Text menu (AA button)
By pressing the keyboards AA button, a range of comfortable reading options will appear. You will have a choice between 6 font sizes, although this unfortunately this doesn’t work with PDD’s, but rather only Amazon Kindle documents (*.azw). The other options are "Words per Line", the configuration of Text-to-Speech (active or disabled, reading speed, male or female voice). These two functions are once again only available with AZW files! Finally, the last function, "Screen Rotation", handles the automatic or manual screen rotation, with the options being for all documents.