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Originally Posted by arspr
At least IMO the "waterproofness" is just one stupid feature. Apart from its marginal usefulness (who do really read in the water, every single device support light splashes of water even with no "official" certification)
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As I mentioned before (perhaps in a different thread, I don't know), you don't need to drop a reader in the bath to damage it. If you've read in the bath before (it's a wonderful, relaxing place to read-I recommend it) then you'll know that a hot bath causes a lot of condensation. I've "ruined" several books before because after coming out of a 30 minute bath the back of the books are soaking wet from all the condensation. On an ereader the openings are all at the bottom so all of this water vapour would be rising up and going straight into the electronics of a normal ereader. It might not damage a normal reader the first time or the second time but if you tried it on a regular basis I'm pretty sure you would shorten the life of your reader. We've moved to a different place with not as nice of a bath and I have a one year old now so I don't have time for the long baths anymore but if my situation were different I would be all over this reader.