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Old 10-16-2014, 08:05 AM   #79
Psykhe
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Device: Kindle4, KindlePW
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
How many times do you take a dish out of the house?
Irellevant. HarryT was speaking about in-house use of a reader.

Outside I am using a sleeve as said already multiple times. But you usually wouldn't use one inside the house, therefore HarryTs comment.

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How many times do you put your dishes in places where you can easy put something heavy on it?
Exactly as often as I put my reader in places where I can easily put something heavy on it. In short, pretty rarely.

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You were lucky. If your Reader had broken, would you be using a case now?
No. Because the prime reason the reader would have broken wasn't because I didn't use a cover but because I was dumb enough to throw it across half the room onto an elastic surface.

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I can tell you, I've read of more people breaking a naked Reade then a Reader in a case, This is not overstated.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...0&postcount=58

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But crossie is talking about a specialized $75 case. You don't have to spend that much on a case. So I don't think that counts.
Except I wasn't. I was using the price for the Kindle PW covers.

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But would you really want to buy a 2-year old Reader with a battery that could be on it's way out?
Because that is the equivalent of the reader I would have broken. If I brake a 2 -year old PW reader I do not destroy ~$110 worth of a new current gen PW but ~$40 of a used 2 year old last-gen PW.

The aim is not to make an upgrade, but to be in exactly the same situation as one was before breaking it.

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Read above about more people breaking naked Readers and you'll see it is not ridiculous.
By that logic it is not ridiculous to say "you are foolish not to use a helmet in the car" because you can read about people getting head injuries in car crashes.

"I've read that someone happened X in situation Y" is in itself meaningless. It only shows that X can happen in situation Y".
It doesn't quantify in any way that chance of X happening in situation Y.
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