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aceflor · 04-22-2015, 05:42 AM

Re: Sun

I am an expat and spend most of my time in very warm and sunny places, so I cannot say anything about E-Readers under very cold conditions, but I have an extensive experience about E-Readers usage under the sun and warm conditions. It can happen that I leave (stupidly enough) my reader on and with the cover open for a few moment in the sun, an hour max. Readers do not like that. They will cease to work for a while and some of them will even display a message telling you that the Reader need to cool down to work again. My Sonys, my Kindles and my Kobos have never had a problem to start again afterwards.

The only brand that died on me because of sun exposure is Pocketbook. Twice. And the Display just went black, it did not show the same as if it had fallen.

I am now in general really careful to close the cover and set the Reader in the shade if I do not know how long I will be busy elsewhere.

This said, I have read for hours near the pool, even in the whirlpool, with the sun on my PW, now my Voyage, or my H2O without any trouble.

04-22-2015, 05:42 AM	#60
aceflor Wizard Posts: 3,472 Karma: 48036360 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: where the sun lives, or so they say Device: Pocketbook Era, Pocketbook Inkpad 4, Kobo Libra 2, Kindle Scribe	Re: Sun I am an expat and spend most of my time in very warm and sunny places, so I cannot say anything about E-Readers under very cold conditions, but I have an extensive experience about E-Readers usage under the sun and warm conditions. It can happen that I leave (stupidly enough) my reader on and with the cover open for a few moment in the sun, an hour max. Readers do not like that. They will cease to work for a while and some of them will even display a message telling you that the Reader need to cool down to work again. My Sonys, my Kindles and my Kobos have never had a problem to start again afterwards. The only brand that died on me because of sun exposure is Pocketbook. Twice. And the Display just went black, it did not show the same as if it had fallen. I am now in general really careful to close the cover and set the Reader in the shade if I do not know how long I will be busy elsewhere. This said, I have read for hours near the pool, even in the whirlpool, with the sun on my PW, now my Voyage, or my H2O without any trouble.