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Originally Posted by leftright
I live in the tropics 80m from the sea, I'm no stranger to corrosion and the sun is fierce. The e-ink screen was great in bright sunlight until the ink faded and the screen went totally white, the ONLY way to recover the unit was via a hard reset, so yes e-ink is beautiful in direct sunlight, for as long as it lasts.
I don't see how corrosion is a issue as the unit is well enclosed in plastic. I've had my Glo for a year and no signs of corrosion anywhere.
Which is a priority for me ?. To be able to read in direct sunlight in latitudes lower than the Arctic Circle for longer than 10 minutes.
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I'm not sure why a hard reset would be needed. Unless you completely crashed the CPU at which point the display would have frozen on what was being displayed when the CPU crashed, I would think that waiting for the unit to cool off would work.
The comment about not tanning had nothing to do with corrosion. Simply that Vancouver tends to have quite a bit of rainfall -- the nickname for this area is "the wet coast". If I want to read outside on the average day, a water resistant device would be handy -- preferably one with a factory installed wiper blade.
Having lived for a few years in Port Radium on the shores of the Great Bear Lake, the issue with reading outdoors would be needing the light up to 22 hours per day and figuring out how to hold the ereader and turn the pages with heavy gloves on.
Regards,
David