Thread: Help! Kindle e-ink fading issue.
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Old 10-03-2020, 12:08 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by hobnail View Post
According to wikipedia the Kindle 8 was released June 2016. Four years doesn't seem long enough for something like this to happen on its own. Do you remember if you left it in a car that was parked in the sun or had done something else that may have damaged it?

I have a Kindle Touch, 4th generation, announced in 2011, and its display is still fine. Every so often I forget for several months (or years) to charge it and it takes at least a day for it to wake up and start charging so running the battery down doesn't seem to be something that affects the display.
A large fraction of the first batch of K2 (late winter early spring 2009) would fade immediately when exposed to sunlight. amazon and e-ink never said what the cause was, but they fixed it.
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