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Originally Posted by kaibob
The comments of the pw4 on the verge states that the screen is a "seamless sheet of glass." But everyone else says plastic, and I suspect plastic is correct.
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Plastic means the backpane of the screen, not the front of the device.
It is a big deal, because traditional e-ink displays are quite fragile, because the manufacturing technology requires the use of a thin plate of glass as a substrate for the display. And when you twist the frame, or drop something on display or apply a pressure it can easily crack.