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Originally Posted by mjh215
One thing I do worry about is that most people seem to have a view of the plastic substrate eInk as some uber-material. You can still crease, dent and puncture it. It is very durable in that it will continue to work and won't crack like glass substrate, but you can still kill 'pixels' and leave lines, spots and such permanently damaged. Watch that insane destruction of the Esquire eInk for an example of what I mean.
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Ever seen a kids toy that came through the growing pains of that kid without being scratched and dented? A good form factor will take care of the creasing, won't mind being dented (that's why I said, add some rubbery substance
) and if enough "pixels" are dead, its useful live has been over and it's time to replace it. As you probably do with a lot of electronics you buy for kids these days. I've no idea what the average life span of kids electronics is, these days... But if I see those DS's from my nephews, they don't mind a few dead pixels