Amazon’s new Kindle DX will begin shipping to consumers a bit earlier than expected, on June 10, for the steep price of $489. As previously reported, the follow-up to February’s release of the Kindle 2 boasts a larger screen and more memory than its predecessors, and it’s designed to better display newspapers and textbooks. Among the new features are the ability to shift from portrait to landscape mode and long-overdue support for PDF documents.

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