Kindle DX - road warrior reports

[koolmnbv]

Thanks for the great review. I really was under the impression that the dx was much to large and would be hard to use on travel. Thanks for showing the other side.

[Anne]

Yes, I think I should be a little less reckless with my Kindle and start using a covered coffee cup!!

Harvey: You should use a coffee cup with a lid. I try to keep my Kindles away from liquids at all times. I would be scared to have coffee that close to my kindle.

[MarthaT]

Wonderful review!

[KindleWorldTraveler]

I too, travel a lot.  The DX is my first Kindle.  I travel mostly from a small airport and haven't been asked to move it from my bag to date.  I've traveled through Mexico City and Newark recently, and no one has asked me to remove it there either.  I was only asked to put my bag on its side in Newark - well, I wasn't asked, I was berated by the nasty TSA person there.  Most of the people in that airport are nasty anyway  . 

I have the M edge platform cover for my DX and I found that I could prop it on the tray table when I travel coach.  I was a little nervous with a 3 year old boy who was sitting next to me, playing with his cars, but there were no incidents to report. 

I love the idea of keeping pdf's of my directions that I get from the web right on my Kindle.  I'll be GPS-less when I get to my destination this week, since my boyfriend needs my GPS more than I do, but the Kindle will come in handy.  Thanks for the idea!

[idolguy]

My local airport (BLI) is a small but busy airport, and that's where I've most often had to remove it. On recent trips, I've had to remove it in IAD (Washington-Dulles), and in OKC (Will Rogers Airport in Oklahoma City). I did not have to remove it in HLN (that's Helena, Montana - not Honolulu, unfortunately!). But that could all be up to whims of the particular screener on that day.

Do you have your Kindle turned on or off when it goes through the detectors?  Would going through the detectors harm it at all?

[Harvey]

Do you have your Kindle turned on or off when it goes through the detectors?  Would going through the detectors harm it at all?

It is turned off when going through, but the detectors would not harm it whether it was on or off. A lot of electronic devices go through those detectors and the X-rays will not harm them.

[sebat]

Thanks for your comments and feedback! Here's another way I'm finding the DX useful on the road:

For a frequent traveller, I have the world's worst sense of direction. I rely heavily on maps and my GPS. And over the years I've collected a folder of PDF files, of maps and directions to get to the various places I frequent around the country.

Some of these are text files, converted to PDF, that have building directions (e.g. "park in the white parking garage in the back, and take rear elevators to go to the security desk on the 3rd floor").

I've dragged-and-dropped that entire folder onto my Kindle DX.

Now, I've got all of my electronic versions of all of those directions and maps with me on the road.



And the landscape orientation is perfect for displaying the maps in large, easy-to-read type while I'm driving.



By the way, please add my name to the list of people who want folders on the Kindle. It's great to have these files, but they do clutter up my Kindle's home page. At least I have them named consistently, so I can find them with a title sort or through search.

You just sold me on a DX.  Now I need to convince the husband. 

[karlm]

Great report, Harvey. Less GPS for us.

[CS]

This picture scares me. What if the plane suddenly experiences a bit of turbulence? 

That coffee is right next to the Kindle, and then...

[Javoedge]

Nice photos Harvey! Though like some have said, I'd be scared to put my Kindle DX next to an open coffee cup on a flight 
When you're traveling around, do you put a case on your Kindle when handling it through the airport or on the plane or whatnot? To prevent all the scuffs from traveling...I try to leave my Macbook covered in a plastic shell case when I travel due to that grime factor.

[Ms Deb]

I have a K2 and thought that I would get a DX for home use.  I ordered it half expecting that I might return it and not be impressed ..... Well that didn't happen.  I find I only use my DX.  It is a little tight in my purse, but so worth it.  I  suggested to my son, that he might want my K2, he has a K1 - but no, when he saw the DX, he wants one too.  I have decided to keep the K2, for smaller purse days - but I do love my Dx.




 I have never been asked to remove my DX from my purse by airport security.  But I have only had it for a short time,  so I have only been through security twice