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pdurrant · 06-22-2014, 05:59 AM

An E-Ink screen doesn't have a front panel. The surface is the E-Ink layer. Unless it's a front-lit model, in which case there is a thin light guide layer in front of it. But, as far as I know, these are still all essentially plastic.

I doubt that retro-fitting a glass protector in front of the screen will help to protect the back-plane, which seem to be most vulnerable to point pressure and torsion stress, rather than side impact.

I'm still hoping that we'll see E-Ink screens in mainstream devices with metal or plastic backplanes at some point, which will probably make the screen the most robust bit of the ereader..

06-22-2014, 05:59 AM	#6
pdurrant The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠 Posts: 74,082 Karma: 315558332 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Norfolk, England Device: Kindle Oasis	An E-Ink screen doesn't have a front panel. The surface is the E-Ink layer. Unless it's a front-lit model, in which case there is a thin light guide layer in front of it. But, as far as I know, these are still all essentially plastic. I doubt that retro-fitting a glass protector in front of the screen will help to protect the back-plane, which seem to be most vulnerable to point pressure and torsion stress, rather than side impact. I'm still hoping that we'll see E-Ink screens in mainstream devices with metal or plastic backplanes at some point, which will probably make the screen the most robust bit of the ereader..