Hey! I'm Brandon Morris, and today we'll be looking at The Amazon Kindle DX. You're lucky, I have compiled the results of hours upon hours of research so you don't have to! Enjoy...

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Well, lets face it: Amazon is not Apple. Jeff Bezos is not Steve Jobs. The Kindle is not an iPhone. But there's something about the new large format Kindle DX e-book reader that whiffs of Cupertino.

Perhaps it's the smoothly confident design, or perhaps it's the cutting edge technology inside. The truth is that, like the iPhone and iPod before it, the Kindle has taken America by storm.

The best part is that no one knows exactly how many of the e-readers have been sold, although estimates range from about 1,500,000 to 1,750,000!!

One thing to clear up immediately is the myth that the DX is some kind of electronic textbook or digital newspaper. While the 16-shade grayscale screen boasts over 2.5 times the real estate of a Kindle 2, it actually provides about the same reading area as large paperback – that's a long way from a tabloid newspaper. Having said that, its compact size allows the Kindle DX to still remai portable, all with wonderfully sharp and contrasty text, especially in bright light.

The background is a touch duller and yellower than the original Kindle but the increased size, smoother images and (very slightly) faster page turns more than make up for that.

The larger screen also means the battery and wireless icons, page numbers and progress bar all take up proportionally less space than before.

An accelerometer even flips the screen orientation automatically from portrait to landscape!

The joystick makes navigating the long pages a breeze, and its control buttons are easy to press and have a quick response.

Browsing and buying books, newspaper, magazines and blogs over the 3G link remains incredibly simple and fast, with even the heftiest digital tomes arriving in under a minute.

The multifunctional USB/charger connection is fairly nippy, too, sideloading MOBI, PDF and MP3 files in next to no time.

The newspaper mode is incredibly handy, while showing just a single story at a time, now lets you search within the paper, as well as browsing section headlines.

There are no adverts and just a few low-res images. Blogs also look fine, as well they should when you're paying a couple of bucks a month for each one rather than just viewing them for free on the all-you-can-surf (or more often, all-you-can-suffer) free web browser.

Kindle DX Recommendation

What I liked:

For only the third gadget Amazon has ever made, the Kindle DX is an amazing achievement. Build quality is first class and the wireless shopping experience is swift, seamless and good value (including many free books). The large, crisp screen makes reading totally immersive, especially if you need to read at a larger font size.

Text management features are generally clever and easy to use, and it's handy to have free basic web browsing on board.

What I disliked:

For a luxury product, the Kindle DX can be sluggish at times, it also has harsh text-to-speech and simplistic MP3 functions which don't feel fully engineered.

The Final Verdict:

Once you've experienced the ability to alter font sizes, look up words, bookmark, annotate and search text, you'll never want to go back to dumb paper books. Downloading newspapers and books wherever and whenever you want is equally liberating.

The DX's display is wonderfully easy on the eye, but less so on the hand and pocket - if you want an e-book reader for commuting, the 6-inch version will be far more practical.

Is this the iPod for books? Yes, it is. It's classy, easy to use and will change your literary life.

CLICK HERE to go to the Kindle DX product page at Amazon.com