How close to the coast do you want to be? I’ve lived here my entire life but never closer than an hour from the coast (Galveston). If I want to go to the beach I go. Don’t worry, us in-landers still have the benefit of the soul-sucking humidity.

I know better because internet and school house rock validated me early!

What's a "phone book"?

Circuit City also let go of their "experienced" staff to save money. They didn't last very long after that.

Answer to number 1 is that the program is in memory at that point. It doesn't need to access the disk. AFAIK

It's cheaper for the Kindle version