hey trekchick:
thatnks for the details. Nice to know everything hasn't shriveled up and died between my ears, well not yet anyway.

I was all set to grab the original gen 1 DX when I remembered there was an Audible $100 credit for an Audible compatible device or accessory. Unfortunately they sis not list any Kindles right now, so I grabbed an iPod Touch 32gb gen 4 and sold it at a nice profit to cover the cost of a DXG so I'll get to play around with a Pearl screen for a while. And now I don't feel guilty since I spent a new $160ish for the Touch and sold it for $400 inside of 30-mins. So my DXG cost me just $160 net. I had been pondering an Audible subscription for a couple years now. Looks like I killed two birds with one stone and we all know how that ends up, with two stoned birds.

OK, sorry I have a closet secret, I PUN. Does that make me a bad person?
I'll have it Monday in the mean time I am squandering the family fortune on books the rest of the weekend. A shame the printed versions of most of the books I am replacing aren't worth more than a couple buncks each though some are considerably more, but those will likely never be out as ebooks so time to hunt up that neat looking scanner from CES.