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Originally Posted by Bob the builder
Kobo certainly gives NO indication of their fragility and their customer service blamed me for it breaking, saying it would have had to have suffered a very heavy impact to break like that. Which it didn't.
I'd much prefer a device without a touch screen that was more robust.
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Not one ereader vendor gives any indication of how fragile e-ink screens are, so it's not just Kobo. And all of them would agree the reader was subjected to some type of physical damage to crack the screen. You probably just found the weak spot on your reader. The way I handle my readers and have dropped them onto conrete, I find them to be not fragile at all and pretty sturdy. I think it's just the luck of the draw whether a fall will crack the substrate or not.
It's not the touch screen at all that makes the readers fragile. It's the substrate of the e-ink screen itself, nothing to do with infrared or capacitive touch at all.
For myself, I can't imagine ever going back to paper books and lugging them around. Especially with my already poor eyesight getting older.