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thanks everyone. i appreciate you all sharing your thoughts and experiences.
some added info:
- i actually am not really holding the Kindle over my head. what i do while lying on my back is that my upper arm (bicep/tricep) is laying flat/paralllel on the mattress. then at my elbow, my forearm is up and roughly a right angle, or maybe slightly tilted towards my face. then my hand is extended beyond that holding the kindle. so in the end, my neck is slightly propped by a relatively flat pillow and my kindle is tilted maybe 30deg from the vertical towards my face.
- good news: while not entirely perfect, i read about an hour last night "pain free" using the Oasis 1. it's screen is not as nice as the Oasis 2 (both size and uniformity of light and text contrast), but i can at least read in bed without hurting myself.
if i did more reading on the sofa (hopefully someday after life gets less busy with having a special needs child at home), i might consider having two Kindles. one for the sofa, one for bedtime reading. but i can't justify that cost right now. as it stands, i'll relegate my quirky PW3 (backlight switch isn't reliable either by power switch/magnetic switch) to commute reading where i don't need a backlight.
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