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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
The glass breaking isn't what breaks the device, at least not directly. The glass is there to protect the very fragile e-ink display.
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Actually if you look at any of the teardowns of any of the devices you'll see that the e-ink layer is coated onto a very thin sheet of glass substrate, so I'd argue that breaking the glass is what directly breaks the device. Not sure if having a thicker glass substrate would mess with the properties of the e-ink layer. The "cover" glass is plastic in most cases but in most cases that doesn't break anyway.
@Dryhte - yes the current e-ink tech is inherently "fragile" due to the paper thin (literally) glass substrate that the e-ink layer is coated onto (search the forum for teardown pictures). Some will claim you must use a case, but you'll see posts of people with broken screens even if they were in a case. Short of direct and hard impacts on the screen surface, IMHO twisting of the device seems to be the big screen killer.