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Originally Posted by guitarchitect
Jeez, what do you think I'm going to do with the thing now that it's in a cover, slam it around and treat it with reckless abandon? I'm "likely" to end up wondering why I have a cracked screen, am i?
All I said was that the case itself will stand up to the abuse of getting shoved into a backpack - IE when I'm packing up for a trip, with a fancy Noreve case I'd probably want to put it in the dust bag and carefully place it in at the end... whereas with a case with a resilient surface, I can stick it where it will fit. I'm not treating a hemp case as if it's some magical kind of force field that will give a halo of protection to my e-reader.
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Sorry, I wasn't trying to imply you were going to mistreat it in any way. You've bought a case for it, so obviously you're trying to protect your device. But if you can grab two diagonally opposite corners of the cover and flex it, it's not going to protect the glass substrate from cracking. Most people don't realize that. If you search on here you'll find pics of teardowns of various kobo devcies and see the piece of glass that I'm talking about. The glass substrate is a paper thin (almost literally) piece of glass that is part of the e-ink display (this isn't the surface of the device, but buried in the middle of it) and is typically what breaks and kills a screen. It doesn't take a lot of force to flex a paper thin piece of glass (a la e-ink) whereas the thicker glass on fronts of phones/tablets aren't likely to flex and break that way.