[chrisridd]

Originally Posted by Nate the great

The USB port is exposed.

According to the company that provided the tech, the guts were waterproofed with some chemical sealant rather than the case.
http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/0...will-cost-230/

I wonder how they could waterproof a USB socket, but not waterproof an SD card socket.

Given how often they touted that they'd been listening to hard core readers when designing the One, I'm increasingly surprised about the lack of an SD card socket. Personally all my stuff fits in 4G so I'm not bothered, but the real hard core readers here have bigger libraries...