I am going to be a freshman in college next year and am thinking about getting a kindle dx to use for the textbooks that kindle supports. I am also an avid reader. I'm just wondering if there is anyone who has used one as a textbook in college and if

A: Yes. Amazon has signed contract with some big textbook publishers to have textbooks published in Kindle ebook format. I've mentioned quite a lot about textbooks on the Amazon Kindle, in another answer here:

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Forget Air Display: turn your Kindle DX into a second screen

The connection is tethered via USB, rather than the wireless link used in Air Display, though that’s the least of the limitations. Obviously you’re working with greyscale rather than color, and the refresh rate is nowhere near that of LCD or AMOLED panels. TinyApps suggests setting the Universal Access settings to also use greyscale, so as to avoid the Mac attempting to show mangled color graphics.

Still, there are some possible uses we can see for such a setup. If you regularly need to review longer documents, doing so on a Kindle screen rather than a regular, backlit display would be easier on the eyes. It’s also quicker – once you’ve done the jailbreaking and other setup the first time – than converting multiple documents to a Kindle format ebook and sideloading.

The most limiting factor is probably the relatively small audience. Exact Kindle DX ownership figures have never been revealed, but the expensive 9.7-inch ereader hasn’t been as popular as its smaller, cheaper sibling.

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