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owlrigh · 07-16-2009, 09:10 PM

Last year I bought the PRS-700 seeing as I was taken in by touchscreen, and then hardly had I had it any time that it dropped from my chair onto my foot, a distance of maybe 50cm, in its case.

That was it; the screen broke. The screen was half blank and half a permanent image of the page I'd been on. I kept it for a while, considering getting a new screen (but translating into AUD, it'd be just as much for a new one). Eventually it went into the bin.

Sadly, now, without e-book reader. It wasn't until I read these forums that I realised how delicate the things were; I've dropped things before and they keep going, but this took me completely by surprise!

07-16-2009, 09:10 PM	#1
owlrigh Bibliomanist Posts: 99 Karma: 26 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Australia, somewhere Device: [past:PRS-700, PRS-505, PRS-T2] Now: Kobo Glo HD, Samsung G7 Edge	Dropped and broken PRS-700 Last year I bought the PRS-700 seeing as I was taken in by touchscreen, and then hardly had I had it any time that it dropped from my chair onto my foot, a distance of maybe 50cm, in its case. That was it; the screen broke. The screen was half blank and half a permanent image of the page I'd been on. I kept it for a while, considering getting a new screen (but translating into AUD, it'd be just as much for a new one). Eventually it went into the bin. Sadly, now, without e-book reader. It wasn't until I read these forums that I realised how delicate the things were; I've dropped things before and they keep going, but this took me completely by surprise!