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Originally Posted by lilac_jive
I can completely confirm that the color goes all the way through. How do I know this? I dropped my Reader on some asphalt and took a good chunk out of the corner. I have a blue one, and the blue goes all the way through.
I tell you what, the thing that suprises me most is the paint on the keys. Mine hasn't worn down at all.
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Can paint "go through"? Maybe the metal just happens to be black? I wasn't aware of metal-permeating paint, but then I'm also not a metallurgist. I would imagine you could add some kind of dye when you smelt, but I'm really out of my league here.
What I really wanted to say is that I'm a little happy to hear your comment on the button-paint. Most of the Sony readers on display in the Sony Style store (the 505's anyway, not the lone 700) all had faded button-paint. Some of the icons were almost completely rubbed off.
Of course, I'm sure those units get felt up quite a bit. They also had wear and tear on the edges, and the paint did not seem to go through. However, it was more of a stressy looking, metallic silver. I forget what the silver unit looked like. I think it might have been a darker silver.