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mbovenka · 06-15-2016, 10:17 AM

I have never found e-ink readers to be all that fragile, actually. I have owned a Cybook Gen3, two Kindle DXGs, two Kobo Aura HDs and am now on my third Kobo H2O. They always went everywhere with me (and thus got nicked or left on the train a few times, hence the duplicates

) and got dropped a few times.

I never, ever have broken one in the past nine years. Not even the large and thin DXGs, which probably were potentially the most fragile of the lot. Yes, sitting on them is probably not advisable, but I have dropped them all a time or two and they all survived. Get a good (stiff! Twisting forces are the enemy) case and they will live.

06-15-2016, 10:17 AM	#10
mbovenka Wizard Posts: 2,079 Karma: 14079267 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Almere, The Netherlands Device: Kobo Sage	I have never found e-ink readers to be all that fragile, actually. I have owned a Cybook Gen3, two Kindle DXGs, two Kobo Aura HDs and am now on my third Kobo H2O. They always went everywhere with me (and thus got nicked or left on the train a few times, hence the duplicates ) and got dropped a few times. I never, ever have broken one in the past nine years. Not even the large and thin DXGs, which probably were potentially the most fragile of the lot. Yes, sitting on them is probably not advisable, but I have dropped them all a time or two and they all survived. Get a good (stiff! Twisting forces are the enemy) case and they will live.