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Thoughts after a few days:
My screen is not uniformly even (setting aside the spotlight effect); I have a faint swath of blue that is only noticeable when the light is turned up too bright for the room's conditions. It also seems like it's getting fainter over time. I don't think it's bad enough for me to bother returning it, but I'll be interested to see if the screen problems get picked up by the mainstream tech media (so far it hasn't happened, that I can see), and if the people getting replacements get units that are 'perfect'. Also have a second household unit coming in about three weeks; will be curious to see what shape that one is in.
I've gotten a little more familiar with the UI, but I still find it frequently non-intuitive, especially if you regularly play with iOS devices or the iOS Kindle app. I can't seem to get over feeling like a tap in the very middle should bring up the toolbar, and I do it all the time. (I'm a long time swipe-turner, though, so I assume tap-turners would have a problem with it...maybe make it configurable?)
My early sync problems seem to have sorted themselves out, and my other Kindle apps now admit that the PW exists.
Sadly I really have to count myself out of much reviewing of the crispness, font contrast, visibility, etc--I have a lot of 'floaters' in my eyes that seem to be getting really bad lately, and I believe I'm just on the cusp of needing reading glasses (but not there yet). In short, any review I give of readability will be kind of pointless. I find I'm constantly fiddling with the text size and spacing, but I fear this is probably due to my eyesight circling the middle-age drain. I *can* say that as an "in the dark" reader, I do like reading the PW on a very low light setting in bed at night (with lights off). This has always been my holy grail for readers, so it wins on that score. The screen flaws are not apparent to me in that scenario.
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