Full Feed“Print to Kindle:” What could make the DX almost worth its price tag
The big hang up on the new Amazon Kindle DX is the incredibly high price ($489). The large e-ink display certainly is easy on the eyes, but hard on the wallet. Some people even speculate that the DX was introduced, in part, to make the Kindle 2 seem less pricey.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos explained that we’re far from a paperless society due in large part to cheap printers and then we’re held hostage by the ink cartridge business. He claimed that the way to go paperless would be to get a large e-ink display and then introduced the Kindle DX that had native PDF support.
Here’s the real killer application for the large screen DX—make it a virtual printer available on your network. Imagine a printer that never runs out of ink or paper. Never. Think about why you print things. You want a portable and easy to read version of whatever you were looking at on your screen.
Hell, the iPhone already has an app that lets you print to it. Calling something a printer explains everything to the consumer. Instead of constantly using ink and paper, just print to your e-ink machine. You could almost justify the price tag if the DX was your main printer.
We’re all used to 8 1/2” by 11” paper. The Kindle DX is meant to recreate that experience with its 9.7-inch screen. Sure you can get your documents on it via the DX’s native PDF support, but that doesn’t seem as straightforward as “Print to Kindle.”
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Print to Kindle is a GREAT idea!!!
I hope Amazon is listening….
On second thought, don’t worry about it Amazon. I’m certain somebody is already working on it.
on May 19, 2009 at 01:07 PM - LINKI do have a workaround for this but was unable to comment here though I could comment on an article written today.
on May 23, 2009 at 06:05 PM - LINKInstaPaper is a way of getting just the article body out of a web page, saving it to a digest of articles that you can email to your Kindle that day (to make the cost only 15c, since it is only one file)
CutePDF is a way to print the article body of a web page to, not the printer, but to ‘CutePDF.’ Then you can email that resulting PDF to your [you]@kindle.com address though that will cost you 15c per file.
I use both of these often, to have articles in my Kindle.
Alternatively (no 15c fee) you can keep the resulting PDF on your computer and
- If to a DX, just tranfer the PDF via USB cable to your Kindle ‘documents’ folder or
- if K1 or K2, (if not converting it yourself with a free utility) then send it to
[you]@free.kindle.com and transfer the converted-file to your Kindle ‘documents’ folder.
Those “Kindle 1 or 2” users who know how to use the free utilities available to convert PDFs themselves can do that, of course, and then move the results to their Kindles.
on May 23, 2009 at 06:09 PM - LINK- Andrys, kindleworld dot blogspot dot com