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Originally Posted by paulbloggs
She claims not to have dropped it or sat on it. Quite a responsible child.
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It wouldn't necessarily take dropping it or sitting on it. Anything that either puts pressure on the screen (more so if it's uneven pressure) or twists that glass substrate can cause a breakage. It might not even happen immediately, as drastic changes in temperature can make a "weak" screen hit its limit. ie: pressure was applied to cause the beginning of a breakage, then, potentially at a much later date it was left somewhere hot or cold and that causes the damage to expand and the whole screen is cracked.
It comes down to being a bit of luck and a bit of being aware of how thin that glass substrate really is. Some people treat their ereaders pretty rough and it never breaks and others treat it almost with kid gloves and it does break. But a child might think that you can treat it like a tablet, phone or computer, but it is definitely more fragile than that, so if she is aware that the screen is much more delicate, it will be less likely to happen in future, but again, could easily just be a bit of bad luck.