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.

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

The resolution isn't that high, technically, but the e-ink technology it uses is, basically, magic (and also why it's so expensive). It's nothing at all like an LCD display and kind of impossible to describe without actually seeing it. It feels, to me at least, almost exactly like reading ink on paper, albeit unbleached, slightly gray paper. It's not even backlit - just like a book, it requires a decent light source.

I read it for hours and hours with no eyestrain, or at least no more than I'd get from a paperback. Compared to reading on my Palm (on which I also read The Moonstone, interestingly enough), it was night and day.

If you want to see what the screen is like, a lot of Borders have displays with Sony e-book readers. I don't like them as much as the Kindle (worse store and no wireless), but the screen is exactly the same so you can look at that part at least.

(All of this is in past tense because my Kindle 1 got left in a Barnes & Noble late last year, idiotically. I can't afford a Kindle 2 quite yet, or I'd be caressing it lovingly right now.)

ETA: The screen is perfect for text, and kind of mediocre for images. At least the Kindle 1 was. They added some extra shades of gray, so the pictures in newspapers might look better now. But it's really focused on text.

I've read that the Kindle 2 screens are rather prone to scratching - anyone experienced this?

an SUV in the right lane swung wide to make a right turn and cut right in front of him in the center lane.

Damn. Much ~ma for him.

I've already gotten my hair cut (the bob gets shorter each time, Hec -- now it's lobe-length!)

I remember you crying the first time you went to bob length, but now you know how good it looks on you.

I read a lot of urban fantasy on it

Like Charles de Lint? I'm reading Dreams Underfoot now and finding it underwhelming.

So, I had the "Jesus is right here and the rapture is about to happen" meeting with the student assistant, I told him about the "school address" issue and he actually had the NERVE to say "well, I thought that you would let the school know that the student had been accepted"

!!!!!

There is not going to be any saving this one. Fire him now.

Hi, Gris, good to see you. Congrats on the successful apartment hunting.

Hey Epic. It's good to see you, too. Sorry to hear about your coworker - definitely sending ~ma for him.

Harvey is once again snuggled up with me inside my shawl, purring up a storm. I dunno what he's going to do when it's too warm for this. Guess I'll have to find that baby-wearing website and make a sling for him.

OMG, Vortex. He reminds me of a line from Friends. Chandler looks at Joey and says, "Why don't you fall down more?"

Is there anyway you can fire him?

Today at school has been fairly decent. Testing all morning wherein I had to do absolutely nothing. Now I have lunch and my plan period back to back (which isn't normal, but due to odd testing schedule happens today). Then I teach 1 class. My last class of the day is my special students and they catch the bus earlier than the others, so I'll be going down to their room to help them pack up for the day. That's it.

Considering the last month has well and truly blown, a slow day is a godsend.

I spent most of the morning grading papers and job hunting.