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Originally Posted by Pjama
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"Water Protection
Your Kindle has been tested to withstand brief accidental immersion in water under certain conditions. However, your Kindle is not intended for underwater use and may experience temporary effects from exposure to water. ..."
Quite, DuckieTigger, but blowing an LED is not a 'temporary effect'. Anyway, I'll not use the new one in the bath as much.
Well, it does have 12 of them, I think, so it is the effect of just losing 1/12 of the illumination. I can see clearly where each LED is, and can count down that it is number 7 that has blown.
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No, a led should not have blown. I wasn't trying to imply that it magically start working again as simply temporary effect. But Amazon's understanding of water resistance is quite different from yours with deliberate underwater adventures. I don't believe that you need to keep your Kindle out of the bathroom, just try to keep it above the water line would be a good compromise to longevity.
My watch, for example, is supposedly "water resistant to 100 meter". I picked one like that because I have a fishtank and want to be able to put my hand in in a hurry without having to worry about my watch. Actually, I need to rinse it off with fresh water afterwards to get all the salt off, so I avoid dunking it when I can. (Salt water together with enough oxygen is a great way put rust on stainless steel in a hurry).