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Originally Posted by frostschutz
I'm not sure exactly how IR optics work (a TV remote you can point nearly anywhere and it works, but with a touchscreen you need precision). In the H2O I imagine it's like this. There's some black/glossy/but IR-translucent L-shaped structure in the bezel that gets the IR stuff from below the Kobo's mainboard to the atop of the screen.
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The Kobo Glo and my Sony 350 readers all have just an empty space there, the IR beams don't need to pass through anything to work. At least all others didn't, so I can't believe they bothered to do something more sophisticated that now requires the plastic piece be there for the IR to work properly. I always thought it was put in place on the H2O because it would need to be sealed to be watertight, and then someone just thought it looked cute and should be stuck on the Glo HD as well.
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Originally Posted by Nick_1964
Thats howfar I already was, but if you need it in the original state for the device to work,you just turned it into a expensive picture frame and can't reverse it anymore..
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I'm still hoping that high-gloss piece might just be snapped into the front shell and can be just as easily snapped out (and then snapped back in if something shouldn't work). I just haven't had the time to take my reader apart.