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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
I use them naked without incident (the e-readers, naked, not me ...).
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Originally Posted by vans
Summer holidays are here, so my annual hunt to find a good book to read on the beach is underway. However, I think it would be a bit high risk to take my eReader, so I will revert to paper.
Am I being too careful?
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I'm not worried about water or dropping onto the pebbles, don't know why so many people here are, with all the waterproof cases and what not.
I'm not exactly going to go swimming with it, huge waves don't come out of nowhere around here and people dripping water usually don't drip on other people, I've almost never gotten wet from droplets shaken off other people. And as for dropping it, well you can drop it at home just as likely as you can drop it on the beach, and most floors are more than hard enough to break it just as well as pebbles. If I set it down I can put it in it's case (
http://www.casecrown.com/ebook-reade...ocket-case-map) and put the case in the bag and it's reasonably safe from water and breaking.
My biggest fears would be theft and heat. I had a cellphone stolen on the beach once (cheap old one) and never (even before that) leave anything valuable in my bag or pockets at the beach. I would be too afraid to leave my e-reader alone on the beach unless someone is watching it, the risk * value factor is too great. But as long as your car is near you can just leave it in your car, it's much harder to steal a car than a bag on the beach, and you won't care much about your e-reader if your car gets stolen.
But leaving electronics in the car at summer or even taking them with you is kind of iffy. I don't have a thermometer in my car but I bet it gets over 50 °C when I'm driving to the beach in the middle of the day in the middle of the summer. The plastic sometimes gets so hot you can almost get burned from touching it, grasping the steering wheel can only be accomplished gradually, by taking heat away from it with your fingers.
So I try to avoid taking any expensive electronics into the car in the middle of day in summer. Can anyone here tell me your experiences with electronics (e-readers, smartphones, netbooks / laptops, digital cameras, external hard drives etc.) in hot cars in the summer, have you had any incidents and how sensitive to heat electronics really are ?
P.S.
Recently there was an incident here with parents (some Polish tourists) who left their 5-year old daughter in the car for 45 minutes while they were shopping or something, the kid fell into some kind of koma (from overheating and dehydration I guess) and the last I heard on the news she was stable but it seems severe brain damage has occured, she's not even recognizing her own parents. Just thinking about this has made me sad and angry...
So don't leave your electronis or your dogs and especially not your kids in your cars in summer !!!
