• Delivery is inconsistent. Some days it comes, some days it doesn’t. I’d say a good 40% of the time it doesn’t come at all.
• Delivery is often late. If I get, there’s a 20% chance it’s when I’m coming home from work, not when I leave.
• Delivery “on hold” didn’t work. I put the subscription on hold for two weeks while I was in Shanghai, so what did I come home to? A huge stack of Wallstreet Journal magazines, and two emails notifying me of the hold period start and end effective dates. Clearly, not very effective.

If you want to read the WSJ (and it’s a great magazine to read), I strongly suggest you pick up the Wallstreet Journal Kindle Edition and get it wirelessly without any of the physical delivery issues.

Other advantages of the Kindle DX over the Kindle 2 include 3.3Gb of Storage for 3,500 books, rotation settings for orienting it in different reading positions, and most usefully, native PDF support. That last one is the only thing I really care about–although I’ve heard that the larger screen size will make refreshes slower. And, what about international support, faster refreshes, or color e-ink?

Still, for Amazon, for every 100 hard copies sold, an additional 35 Kindle editions are being sold, which is incredible growth. For more opinions, try searching Twitter for “Kindle DX”!

Update: The latest Kindle firmware enables native PDF on the regular Kindle2, and it’s fantastic!

One often overlooked feature is Amazon’s Kindle PDF/Microsoft Word .doc to AWZ (kindle format) conversion service. For just $.10 an attachment, they will convert files for you into Kindle format, and transmit them wirelessly to your device! A question you might ask is how does the converted file look, and is it readable?

First, the new file is transmitted and named exactly as the attachment is named. The “author” field is your email address, so you can quickly distinguish the converted pdf from your purchases on the Amazon Kindle store.

The conversion doesn’t know about tables of contents, footnotes, copyright statements, prefaces, or any other book convention. It simply reads in the file you gave it, and spits it out onto your Kindle in the same format. So, the indentation may be screwy, and there may not be any chapters or other marks–it will read as a single continuous chunk of text. That said, it is legible and works, although the experience is somewhat degraded from what you’d buy in the Kindle store.

You can also get text (as above) which came from a page marking randomly inserted into the paragraph flow. Converting PDFs is definitely not glitch free, but at least it only costs you $.10 a try!