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"The larger screen lends itself to displaying newspaper and magazine content…. You see more of the story on a single page and the reading experience is a little more akin to reading an actual newspaper."

"The DX weighs about half as much as the paperback, a real load off my chest. (Sorry, couldn't resist.) As Kindle lover Chen is apt to point out, the Kindle 2 is just half the weight of the DX, but I counter with this lazy man's factoid: Even using a slightly larger font, I can see the equivalent of two and a half Kindle 2 pages on a DX screen. It is, in fact, a better reading experience."

"Reading by the pool was pleasant, and there was absolutely no glare caused by the sun."

"In reading standard books on the DX, I also encountered instances where the text on a page varied in shade from light gray to black…. I tried a variety of documents, and in many cases the results were great. The text was crisp, and the tables and graphics looked like they should. But I found that on some of these PDF documents, the text was too small to read..."

"Thing is, when you download a magazine like the Atlantic Monthly or the New Yorker to read on the DX, the design isn't any different, so it doesn't really use this extra space in a meaningful way. Sure, photos can be larger, but for the most part you just get more words on the page."

"More text on a page means more lines and, if you prefer, a bigger font, without having to turn the page as often. What does that mean for you? It's easier to read via the DX."

"Monochrome E-Ink may look nice by the light of your nightstand lamp—and thank God Amazon hasn't gone and mucked it up like Sony did with that PRS (more like POS)-700—but it's still too slow to leaf around the way you would a serious work of literature."