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davidfor · 11-25-2018, 01:43 AM

Mine must be six years old as well. The light stopped working after a little more than two years. Everything else was fine. It was heavily used up to that point. I carried it with me on my commute and probably probably averaged close to two hours use per day. At that time I bought an Aura H2O and then a Glo HD (preferred the size). The Glo kept working other than the light and I used it for testing. But it started having problems a year or so later. Weird things like failing to download firmware updates or taking longer than expected to do something. I replaced the internal SD card last year, and it returned to working properly. The battery life seems good for a six year old battery, but I don't read on it to really test it. It has a couple of scuff marks on it, and the switch has worn down so it is hard to grip, but is fine otherwise.

I also bought three other Glo's a year after mine. They were for my wife, son and mother-in-law. The latter two haven't lasted as their screens were broken after two or three years. My wife gave hers to her mother when I gave her the Aura ONE at this time last year. As far as I know it is still working fine. I recently tried pulling the light out of one of the broken Glo's to put in mine, but I broke it somehow when putting it on.

11-25-2018, 01:43 AM	#2
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,907 Karma: 47303748 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	Mine must be six years old as well. The light stopped working after a little more than two years. Everything else was fine. It was heavily used up to that point. I carried it with me on my commute and probably probably averaged close to two hours use per day. At that time I bought an Aura H2O and then a Glo HD (preferred the size). The Glo kept working other than the light and I used it for testing. But it started having problems a year or so later. Weird things like failing to download firmware updates or taking longer than expected to do something. I replaced the internal SD card last year, and it returned to working properly. The battery life seems good for a six year old battery, but I don't read on it to really test it. It has a couple of scuff marks on it, and the switch has worn down so it is hard to grip, but is fine otherwise. I also bought three other Glo's a year after mine. They were for my wife, son and mother-in-law. The latter two haven't lasted as their screens were broken after two or three years. My wife gave hers to her mother when I gave her the Aura ONE at this time last year. As far as I know it is still working fine. I recently tried pulling the light out of one of the broken Glo's to put in mine, but I broke it somehow when putting it on.