Dropping it is rarely the problem. The real problem (from seeing my wife's broken screen myself) is when things press on the screen - e.g. in a bag with another non-flat object. The case is not sufficiently rigid to prevent the screen being pressed and broken.
OTOH, my cybook has survived about 18 months, perhaps because I always make sure it's not pressed or twisted. It has been dropped (in case) a few times though - one enough to dislodge the SD Card!
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Originally Posted by Halk
Dear people who have had a broken Cybook screen at some point...
Did you have your Gen3 in a case when the screen was broken? The reason I'm asking is that I've got mine in the standard brown case (without a hole to see the LED), and I'm not entirely convinced it's fool proof. If I drop the book it has to land on a corner, unless it does the virtually impossible and land completely flat on one size. So if it lands on a corner I'm not confident there's enough padding to prevent the plastic shell of the Cybook making contact with a hard concrete floor.
It also seems that where a screen has broken it's often the case that torque/torsion/twisting has happened, and again I'm wondering if the case is enough to prevent this.
Also, sorry if I bring back any bad memories from people with broken screens, I realise it can't have been a pleasant experience at all, and I hope I don't sound unsympathetic.
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