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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
Water and Weather proof is pretty misleading! Resistant is a better word! They all can fail, but a dry sack, while ALSO capable of failure is much less likely to fail than the devices themselves!
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I presume with a dry sack you mean a bag where you put your device in which you then close up and no water comes in?
For me, that wouldn't be enough. I hate to use pouches of any kind on my devices that I take with me on a daily basis.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Oh sure - if you drop your rucksack in a river and leave it there for 5 minutes your reader is probably not going to like it!. They hold up just fine against even the most torrential rain though (and goodness knows we get enough of that in Britain  ). |
It's not only throwing your racksack in a river that can kill a device. I've drowned 2 phones, in my rucksack, while I was walking to my office, on a clear day. I always carry a bottle of water and sometimes the bottle cap would fall off (I'm using a
Dopper now, so that won't happen again!). And twice my phone was in the same pouch (in the bag, it was a laptop bag with multiple watertight pouches, thankfully, as my laptop was still dry :P) as the bottle. And twice the phone had died due to the water. And these were Nokias from before the era of the smartphones.
Point is, water damage is very easy to get, you don't need a bathtub or torrential rainshower for that, a cup of tea could be enough (one of my keyboards I had to replace due to a cup of tea...)
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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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Yes, that rubber flap can become annoying. Which is why I bought the One, as that one is waterproof without the flap
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Absolutely no reason not to feel safe. The H20 H2O and the Aura One are both certified to a standard which guarantees them to remain waterproof after (this is from memory - I may be slightly wrong) 30 minutes' immersion in a metre of water.
EDIT: Yes, I was right. It's called "IP67" certification and guarantees 30 minutes' immersion in a metre of water, so dropping it in the bath would be no problem.
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I still don't do it, but I do like the idea that if it happens, for whatever reason, I know the reader can stand it. And I don't have to completely dry my hands either when I hold the reader (what I always had to do with all my other books/readers before I got the H2O, I always read with books and electronic devices in a tub, without extra protection, but common sense)
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Originally Posted by Cosimo
A reader being waterproof isn't something I (personally) find necessary.
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No, not necessary, but it was an absolute plus in my list of positives and negatives when I got the H2O (and the One).