[meeera]

Originally Posted by Sonist

In the Kobo forum, there are a whole bunch of posts just this year, from users claiming that they have substrate cracks, but have not dropped, or otherwise damaged, their Kobos. Below are the posts about likely broken substrate, since about April 2015:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ight=substrate
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ight=substrate
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ight=substrate
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ight=substrate
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ight=substrate
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ight=substrate
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ight=substrate
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ight=substrate

These do not include posts stating that there was a drop, even if the poster claimed that there was minimal impact.

this is, belatedly, a little bit hilarious. On a quick look, one was a device put in a bag in no case/cover, two were left in hot cars, one wasn't a broken substrate at all, one was from 2011, one is you, one was a child's device jammed forcibly into a packed bag ...

Give. It. Up. seriously. Ereaders get broken. Like wine glasses, and spectacles, and other things made of glass. Some people manage to keep them intact for years and years, and others are just klutzier. (I go through wine glasses like nobody's business, personally.)