More Kindle DX Impressions

I’ve been able to do some more work on the Kindle DX, and have some pictures to go with it. Understanding I am clearly not a photographer, I’ve uploaded some of them. To get lighting, I actually ended up propping it up slightly on a bedspread (in my home, that was where I got the best combination of lighting and positioning for shooting-so that’s what the red background is).  You may want to download the pictures and display them full size to get a real idea of the resolution of the screen–in the browser the pictures will likely be scaled down, which will make the text look fuzzier than it really is.

My main concern was having the product work with my CPE manuals, and that part seems to be working. Shown above is a picture of the device displaying a page from the Pass Through Entities Advanced manual for a course I’ll be doing shortly in Oklahoma City and Phoenix.

The display is very readable and though it has a slight tendency to reflect overhead lights, if you position it just slightly slanted so that it’s not perpendicular to the light source even that problem goes away.

Of course, Amazon’s point in selling this is to sell content, so I have some shots of that as well.

I was also able to subscribe to the Arizona Republic using the device. Papers have a rather unique navigation system, but once you figure it out you can navigate to the shown list of sections.

An actual story is shown above from the paper (the lead story on Sunday).

There is even some technical material already available. Obviously things already in PDF form (many IRS releases, including the Cumulative Bulletin, and court decisions come in that form on the Internet) can be loaded onto the device.

But Wiley has even published their new GAAP Codification Enhanced volume on the Kindle, making it a useful reference volume. Unfortunately there’s not a huge amount of such commercial technical material on tax and accounting available, but hopefully that will change. It would frankly be very nice to get a version of the Internal Revenue Code in that form.

Overall, it looks like this device will fulfill my main goal (getting rid of having to carry printed manuals around the country) and will also do double duty handling many PDF based tax documents I might want reference to.