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Originally Posted by chanwc
i put it in the bag and bring with it as before
is the e-ink screen so frangible when normal use
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Basically all of the readers use the same screens, so my comments about my Kindle do apply....
I carry my Kindle daily in my backpack. I bought the thick and somewhat rigid leather case that Amazon sells because I knew I'd be carrying it around a lot. As has already been said, it is glass, a fairly thin piece and fairly large. Who knows what happens in a bag... bags swing, they hit door jams, they get put down, picked up, squeezed between people in crowds, etc... Mine has gone > 1.5 years of being carried under my arm, in my backpack, in my bike bags, in dry bags in a kayak (even having flipped the boat and had it float downstream in the bag!), tossed onto a car seat while driving (and flying to the floorboards while stopping), stolen and recovered (and having its case broken in the meantime), yet the screen still works perfectly. Glass is fickle... the lightest touch can shatter it in one case and a major crash can do nothing in another. An impact that appears to do nothing can create invisible damage that puts it under stress so that a week later it breaks "just sitting there"... it's really hard to say.