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Originally Posted by Chasethelight
P.S. Out of the ereaders I own:
The Kindle 3 seems to have some kind of coating on the back but it has not failed.
The Kobo Glo has slightly harder plastic that is hatched to soften the plastic, maybe no rubberization,
And the Kobo Glo HD has a rubberized hatched plastic back.
None of the three has failed.
The items that I owned that did fail began life with a softer more rubberier feel to them.
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This sounds similar to a problem in the 70s-80s, when many plastic type AC power cords (think lamps, etc.) would undergo a chemical change and became a sticky, gooey mess.
This also happened to the rubber coating on a remote for my McIntosh Integrated Amplifier, the premium MA7000. These remotes from that era (2011) for almost all their product line suffered from this issue. The company finally created new remotes for their audio gear and now the problem has been solved.