I noticed, that I only use a very small portion of the Bamboo pad, as only this square field is kind of syncronized with the writing field on the skritter website. Now this little square looks very used now, whereas 90% of my pad looks crisp and new. ^^ Isn't there any way, to adjust the writing field so that the surface is used more equally everywhere?
I hope I got my problem across. Hehe. :P

I found the same thing. If you simply resize the Skritter window and move it around, that'll help. It depends on your screen size though. Also, there's an option in the settings to swap the writing area to the left/right of the window. Hope this helps :)

There are options in the Wacom settings to map the pad to specific portions of the screen, which may also help.

Thx, Catherine, that helped! :D I will check that out too nick. Thanks!

Also you might try putting a thin plastic sleeve over the pad.

I dropped my pen one day and that was the end of it.

thin plastic sleeve is good! sketch/notebook paper taped tightly over the writing area is nice too, makes it feel like you are writing on paper as well, just replace the paper after youre about to wear a hole in it

So far I've tried to spread out the wear and tear by using the options Nick mentions to readjust the writing area. I don't use my Bamboo for anything but Skritter, so it's a good fix for me. May have to try out the paper or plastic at some point, I wonder how a tablet/smartphone protective film would do for it?