Stephanie, I read a ton, but two things I absolutely loved doing with the Kindle were:

1) The Times, but it's not worth it if you won't do it pretty much daily since you can get it mostly free online and

2) Atlantic Monthly. I really liked getting it sent to me wirelessly, and it was cheap if i recall. And now you can get the New Yorker too. A good way to get quality reading with wide variety.

I have no idea what else you like to read. I read a lot of urban fantasy on it, and some fun chick lit. I read Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea and laughed, Atonement and cried, Twilight and cringed but couldn't stop, Home by Julie Andrews and learned, A Short History of Nearly Everything and learned even more, Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing and learned in a laughing manner, very Buffistishly, You Don't Have to Be Wrong for Me to be Right and agreed, and Choke and continued my string of only sort of liking Palahniuk, . Plus some other stuff.

So that's some suggestions. There could be more.

ETA: Also - hi, everybody. I went away for a while, because I was apartment hunting and had no time. But we've been approved for a nice 1 bedroom in a neighborhood we like for a price we like even more, so yay.

Liese, bless/curse you for mentioning Many Books. I've already downloaded three old mysteries onto my Palm. I'll finally read Wilkie Collins' "The Moonstone". And Hubby wonders why I have to recharge my Palm so often.

Catching up, am I the only one who thinks Vortex should send her assistant to set up her mom's network?

Hah! Brenda is eeeeevil, and funny.

Stephanie, I wasn't sure what sort of thing you like to read! I mean, I devour lots of things from the library, but I read...anything I can get my hands on, really. Scifi, fantasy, trashy romances, etc. But if I have to PAY for it, I get more picky. So I'm not sure what to recommend you PAY for...:)

Curious: how would Kindle work for reading long works? How is screen resolution/eye strain compared to printed pages?

I've given up reading stories of cruel things being done to cats, as they just upset me.

The cat appears to be fine, don't worry. The story is more funny than upsetting (though it was probably appropriate to bust the guy for it).

TB, I have no idea abotu the numbers behind but so far the screen seems very precise but soft somehow (in a good way)

Hey, All.

I've been trying to catch up and promising myself I'm gonna get back in the habit of talking instead of lurking more (made more difficult in the new "open format" office arrangement) for a good while now, but today I'm extra-motivated so I can request the patented ~ma.

A guy at work just had a motorcycle accident yesterday. Not his fault - an SUV in the right lane swung wide to make a right turn and cut right in front of him in the center lane. He went into the SUV's back end. He's got a fractured vertabra in his neck and is at that "everything is too swollen to tell whether he'll be permanently paralyzed" stage. He's only about 25 and such a nice guy. So, any ~ma that can be spared for Jesse and his spine would be greatly appreciated.

On a somewhat lighter note - let me Fourth(?) the rec for The Time-Traveller's Wife. It was really great. And have fun with the stuff that's public domain - I don't have a Kindle, but the first time I found downloadable ebooks I started going back and reading classics that I somehow never got around to...I remember Treasure Island and War of the Worlds specifically.

Today, the US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces is having meetings here (they do this every year) and for the first time security (ie, the people in plainclothes with the earphone and telltale bulge under a jacket) is all over the place. I find it somewhat funny that all the people in uniform can't protect themselves.

Also, they reserved all the close parking spaces for them. So the pregnant lady had to walk and extra few steps. Harumpft.

However, I took my revenge when they were serving lunch in the atrium, I marched right out there, with my bulging belly, and grabbed some, just to see if anyone would say anything. They didn't, so I got a nice hot lunch for free. HAR! I'm going to do it tomorrow, too.

Thou shalt not blow pot smoke into the face of thy pets!

This does not mean that hot-boxing them is Bukowski-approved.

I have no idea about the numbers behind but so far the screen seems very precise but soft somehow (in a good way)

Yeah, formal numbers are easy to get. The subjective feel was more what I was going for, so I appreciate your answer.