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Originally Posted by graycyn
I'm not in favor of plastic screens to make devices lighter either, as plastic scratches. I'll take a durable glass screen at the sacrifice of a little battery life. I don't need my reader to last weeks on a charge, several days is fine. Frankly, NO ereader I've EVER used lasted weeks with my kind of usage....
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What was being referred to with the eInk Mobius display is not the front of the screen but rather the substrate the eInk display is built on. This would reduce the number of broken substrates which is one of the major causes of early death for ereaders and allow for a lighter ereader for the same display size.
To quote from the eInk blurb for the Mobius displays:
For applications such as cell phones or hand-held devices, the use of a plastic TFT can be augmented by a layer of unbreakable glass on the front of the display to give stiffness to a device which requires significant touch interaction, but still provides an increased ruggedness. In these types of devices the TFT itself is often the component that fails when dropped, rather than the top plane glass. A plastic TFT can significantly reduce display failure due to those drops.