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Originally Posted by mbovenka
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 think that one person's "gentle handling" is another person's "you did WHAT?!", and we probably all set the bar somewhere different. Some people think a device will (should?) only break with a severe impact, like dropping naked onto a tiled floor. There have been people who have left their device in a car in the sun or forced it into an overstuffed backpack, who thought that wasn't an unreasonable or risky thing to do at the time. And there there are the unconscious things - I know how very easy it would be to lean on my Kobo without thinking, if it's in my hand while I'm getting into bed, so that's something I'm extremely careful about - but I think it would be very easy to do it unconsciously and without remembering that I did it.
It wouldn't occur to me to complain to a manufacturer if I broke a wine glass. Same with an ereader.