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3 Kindle Keyboards gifted to distant family
1 Kindle Basic gifted to my mom
3 Kindle DX for oldest son (one stolen while he was using it, one primary reader, one for the other half of his documents)
1 Kindle Keyboard for oldest son's girlfriend
2 Kindle Keyboards for younger children (starting when they were in elementary school -- one lost on train, abused such that the cover was destroyed, then returned)
1 Generic ePaper based reader for my son before giving him the Kindle
1 Kindle Keyboard for my GF
1 Kindle Paperwhite for me
13 eReaders in total that I have purchased... not a single one has ever broken. These have been taken on kayak trips where the boat flipped and everything went down the river (in a dry-bag), multi-day bicycle tours, multi-day hikes, plane rides, daily rides in backpacks & purses, stuffed in my back pocket, dropped, left in hot cars, sat on, slept on, etc... the only concession is that they are all in cases, mostly the official Amazon case.
Not a SINGLE mishap except for the one snatched in broad daylight while in use at a cafe and one where somebody riffled through my backpack when I left it on the train and somebody yaked and twisted at the cover, messing up the attachment holes and breaking the metal tabs, before giving up, apparently deciding that it wasn't a fancy tablet.
I sometimes wonder how people manage to break multiple readers.
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