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Originally Posted by yingwu
Dan, again I feel so sorry and I am sure I have your feeling when such a device was crashed. I have spent a long time to evaluate whether it is worth buying this e-reader.
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Fair enough, I understand. I'm sorry I was sarcastic. And I appreciate your sympathy.
A large part of my regret over the whole issue (at least, the part that doesn't curse my clumsiness) is that I was so happy with the DR1000s while I'd been using it. I saved up and bought it specifically to read large-format pdfs so I could work on my MA thesis without the eyestrain of reading off an LCD screen and without having to print reams and reams of paper that I'd wind up recycling later, and the reader was absolutely perfect for those needs. My frustration was that it became blemished almost immediately---it makes me think over and over, "I can't have nice things."
The bottom line, though, is that the device itself was fantastic. If I had the money to replace the screen, I would; I don't, but I'm still using it because the grumbliness of seeing the fracture doesn't trump its utility. It's hard to tell if the spot is still feathering out (I hope you're right, cbell), and I'm probably not going to use the stylus again or clean the screen, but I can still read off it and navigate with the buttons. I've also still got my Cybook from which I read reflowable content exclusively and after two years it's not had any mechanical problems. The screen is still pristine and despite the long wait for firmware updates, I've used it probably five days a week since I got it for at least an hour per day. Despite the fragility, I'm sold on the technology.
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Originally Posted by yingwu
Thus I am surprised to know the screen is so frangible and I am more surprised to know the device is still alive even when something hit the screen.
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The horror-stories about screen-breaks I read in the Cybook forum sound generally like the result of broader physical trauma to the screen (though a lot of them were reported as
SIDS making me think there might have been a flaw in manufacturing for the earlier screens): the layer of electronics telling the cells with the pigment capsules in them what to do gets torn off and portions of the whole screen stops working. If I'm lucky with my situation, as cbell suggested, I've just burst some of the capsules and haven't damaged the connection between the capsule layer and the electronics in a systematic way.