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How many times do you take a dish out of the house?
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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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You can still break a Reader in house by putting something on top o it, not noticing it's there and then putting something heaviy on it. It's too easy to do.
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How many times do you put your dishes in places where you can easy put something heavy on it?
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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 didn't say never, so all it takes is that once and the Reader is broken.
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You were lucky. If your Reader had broken, would you be using a case now?
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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 disagree. The prime reason it would have broken is because it wasn't protected. You are just lucky it didn't break.
People tend to post when there is a problem and a broken Reader is a problem. So if you go by just the broken Readers, then what I've read is more people breaking them without a cover then with.
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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.
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Except I wasn't. I was using the price for the Kindle PW covers.
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Then you obviously didn't look at Kindle covers in any real detail. You can get a cover for $9 on up to $75 Oberon cover. So no, you do not have to spend a lot to get a cover.
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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?
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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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What if the battery was not all that wonderful in this replacement Reader and it's one where there isn't an easily available replacement battery for it? Then you've bought a Reader that you will have to replace because of the battery. So not only would it cost you a new Reader, but also, the cost of the used Reader.
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Read above about more people breaking naked Readers and you'll see it is not ridiculous.
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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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So let's all wear helmets in cars. You first.