After all of my ranting about the missing features on Amazon’s Kindle E-Reader it seems that most of the features I had been seeking have finally been implemented on Amazons new large screen Kindle, called the Kindle DX.

Kindle DX provides users with free 3G wireless network support, native PDF support, a larger, 9.7 inches,  textbook friendly screen with 16 shades of gray, smart auto-rotating screen, and a price tag of $489.

This new offering by Amazon ups the ante in the EReader marketplace and finally provides me with the features I require to make the purchase make sense. I will be ordering mine soon and if all goes as planned I will never buy another dead tree reference book again.

Let me know if you think that Amazon’s latest offering is enough for you to give up paper books?

After the release of Kindle 2.0 I couldn’t help but feel disappointed. Few of the features I had been hoping for were implemented, the new design, though better than the old one, is still nowhere near cool enough to part the average consumer from their hard earned money, and on top of that the product was still not released outside of the US. All of this has led me to believe that if electronic ink is going to dethrone the paper , then it will be someone else besides Amazon designing the product.

But if not Amazon and their Kindle, then who? Who can break the eInk industry open and produce a product so cool that even people who don’t read regularly will buy one? Apple? Sure they make super chic products but Steve Jobs already said no, because as he puts it “nobody reads anymore”. How about someone completely new; someone dedicated completely to bringing a product to market that really satisfies the desires of consumers. Well I think that someone might be named Plastic Logic.

A quick browse of their YouTube video collection clearly shows that this is the real deal. This is what I, and I assume many others, wanted the Kindle to be. Full touch screen display, with annotate feature allowing you to interact with digital documents just like their paper counterparts. Tables, charts, images, and code all displayed on a crisp, thin, durable, DRM free device the size of a pad of paper.

Don’t take my word for it though. Watch the videos, browse the website and if you still aren’t convinced then maybe Mike Rankin’s piece, “Is This What a Kindle Killer Looks Like?” can change your mind. Either way I would like to hear back from you on this.