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With its larger footprint, the Kindle DX, makes reading PDF documents - a common format for scholarly publishing - more convenient for Kindle owners.

Other Kindle models can speak PDF too, after what is sometimes - not always - a simple conversion process. All of which makes the latest project of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication of interest to Kindle readers with a scholarly bent.

On September 8th, Harvard launched DASH (Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard) - an open access repository of scholarly works in PDF format.

Still in beta, the site contains more than 1500 articles by Harvard-affiliated authors, divided into two "communities" - the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Harvard Law School.

You may search the repository or browse its offerings by department, author, title, keywords or issue date.

Although scholarly offerings in the fields of law and medicine predominate, I found several articles in language and history of interest to the casual reader. Some examples:

Circling the Spheres: A Dialogue, by Lawrence Buell.
"Presents a dialogue focusing on the notion of separate spheres in American literary history. Identification of women writers in the antebellum period; Examination of literary ethnography traditions; View on the development of African American studies."

Collecting and Researching in the History of Books, by Robert Darnton.

Downwardly Mobile for Conscience's Sake: Voluntary Simplicity from Thoreau to Lily Bart, by Lawrence Buell.

A Life of Learning, by Helen Vendler.

Note Taking as an Art of Transmission, by Ann Blair.

Reading Strategies for Coping with Information Overload, ca.1550-1700, by Ann Blair.
"...surveys some of the ways in which early modern scholars responded to what they perceived as an overabundance of books. In addition to owning more books and applying selective judgment as well as renewed diligence to their reading and note-taking, scholars devised shortcuts, sometimes based on medieval antecedents. These shortcuts included the use of the alphabetical index, whether printed or handmade, to read a book in parts, and the use of reference books, amanuenses, abbreviations, or the cutting and pasting from printed or manuscript sources to save time and effort in note-taking."

What Have We Learned Since 1989?, by Charles Maier.

Unfortunately, many of the articles cited in DASH are (at the request of their authors) not yet available as full-text downloads, but as the repository grows, it may become a good source of scholarly articles for Kindle readers.