Thread: How much is Amazon missing by not having a waterproof Kindle?
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Old 11-19-2016, 11:57 AM   #38
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I'm honestly not sure that a waterproof device is a big thing in many people's minds... Amazon spend an awful lot of money on market research; I'm sure that if a significant number of people had said "I would buy a Kindle if only there were a waterproof one available", there would have been one by now.
Yeah, you and DiapDealer probably have a valid point.

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To be honest, when I owned an H2O, I found the rubber flap that goes over the ports to make them waterproof a real pain whenever I wanted to connect the device to my PC, or recharge it.
Waterproofing has gotten better since then. Most waterproof devices do not rely on a rubber flap for their waterproofing.
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