I bought my Mars back in 2019. It survived several drops over the years, until this week. It worked fine for 3 days after I dropped it in the parking lot at work.
This morning I turned it on and it had a number of lines going across the screen. I hit the refresh button and suddenly the screen looked like a old fried Etch-A-Sketch and no longer works as a touch screen. Not that you can see much of anything thru it anyway.
I went from Sony ( i think it was their 2nd reader), to a samsung tablet, to a galaxy tablet, to a fire tablet (not reader) to the Mars. I just ordered a Kobo to try. I just can't read without e-ink anymore. Tablets just give me a headache.
