John, Hopefully they will improve their PDF software. I heard a review on the TWIT "Security Now" podcast where it was panned for the PDF reader, even though they liked the hardware. The reviewer that I heard said that many PDFs they he tried were unreadable. Too bad its not an open Linux distro where you could choose/build/install your own PDF reader. There are several good readers out there.
But I expect that they will improve this - they have to if they want to sell it into the huge university market, where this thing has the potential of doing to textbooks what the IPOD did to CDs :-) Kirk On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:40 PM, McKown, John <[email protected]>wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe > > Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 12:24 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: IBM PDF manuals and the Amazon Kindle DX. > > > > McKown, John wrote: > > > I'm happy to have bought it, but a tad disappointed due to > > the navigation "problem" mentioned above. > > > > > > > Does it have a way to download & install software upgrades? > > If so, that > > usability issue might get cured in a future deliverable... > > > > -- > > Edward E Jaffe > > Supposedly yes. But I didn't see anything on Amazon's site about that > feature. I read in a blog that Amazon can, at its discretion, enable and > disable features via the wireless. That's why I have wireless turned off > most of the time. Well, that also increases battery life as well. So, if > such is possible, there it is likely "pushed" whenever Amazon wants to. I > don't much like that either, but I don't know for sure that they actually > have that ability. > > -- > John McKown > Systems Engineer IV > IT > > Administrative Services Group > > HealthMarkets(r) > > 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 > (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell > [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or > proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please > contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original > message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and > issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake > Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of > TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
