Amazon Kindle DX

I've had a DX for around four years, and absolutely love it for reading PDF's (mostly of academic papers). It's light, the screen is clear, and it works well with all of the PDF's I've thrown at it. (This includes PDF's that are scans of 40 year old papers.) My one complaint is that it doesn't have a lighted screen for night time reading. (I also have a Kindle Paperwhite 2 that I use for books. I've tried PDF's on on the paperwhite, and it doesn't work nearly as well as on the DX.)

I use 10” kindles like the scribe and DX. Bigger than a physical paper volume

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Yeah, I have one that I loved for reading papers. My only gripe was that it gets heavy/awkward for "light" reading at night. I wound up switching to reading fiction on my phone and papers on the DX. It really is perfect for PDFs. I'm sad they never made an updated version. I've stopped using mine as much after grad school, but I do miss it quite often.

Until the retina iPad, I preferred my old original Kindle DX for reading black and white PDFs. I now prefer the retina iPad for PDFs I need to rapidly navigate, but still appreciate the DX for reading research.

For me it's reading. This is why I think that things like the Samsung ATIV and the Asus Transformer Book are so neat. For most things I do - writing code, writing emails, posting my inane thoughts on Hacker News, the laptop form factor is pretty ideal. I really like the book form factor for reading texts. For novels, my Kindle is great, but for textbooks and technical books, with a lot of random access, I much prefer a tablet to a laptop, and to the weight/space requirements of a dead tree book. I have the Kindle DX too, which is a pleasure to read, but the lack of random access is killer. That said, I never have my tablet when I have my laptop, since it's more stuff to carry around - which is why I think if they were one and the same, it'd be ideal.

Sounds like you need a kindle :D I recommend the DX for technical users.