I hate myself for damaging my 505 - Page 2

kacir · 03-16-2010, 03:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wordcrasher

Kacir, that workaround could work, but I'm too lazy ;-)

This is not about laziness.
This is about how desperate you are ;-)

Phirebird · 03-19-2010, 03:59 PM

Don't hate yourself. Shortly after getting my 505 I came home from a trip and had a similar calamity. Upon arriving home I went to the back of my van to get out my suitcase. I looked up to see that our family room window was broken. Seems a ruffed grouse tried to fly through it as I found said bird under the window. After cleaning up the broken glass, and the cause of the broken glass, I realized I needed to move the van to allow my wife to get into the garage. I jumped in and promply backed over my suitcase, which was still sitting on the driveway behind the van. You guessed it, I destroyed my month old, much loved 505.

Fortunately it was still under warranty and replaced. My replacement quickly received a nice M-Edge cover and in the end all turned out ok, even though I hated myself for quite awhile. It's tough when the only person to blame is staring back at you in the mirror.

I hope things turn out well for you. I can certainly feel you pain.

visually · 06-05-2010, 02:24 PM

Three days ago, I bought secondhand prs-505 and I accidentally dropped my prs-505 less than a foot high. And it happened to me. Screen was cracked.
I was so sad that couldn't sleep. :-(

clerky96 · 06-06-2010, 04:59 PM

I read where someones cat jumped on theirs and cracked the screen. Accidents just happen.

threebeers · 09-22-2010, 05:28 PM

I'll repost this from another thread I did, hope it helps. I suggest you play around with both landscape and horizontal conversions, both epub and lrf, until you find settings you like:

I bought my PRS-505 over a year ago, love it. The screen recently cracked in the luggage coming back from a trip (the cover was of no help). The top half of the screen is now worthless, but I noticed the bottom half was unaffected. Installing a replacement screen from Sony seems to be the price of a new Kindle. I was going to sell it for scrap on ebay when it I remembered that Calibre has detailed margin settings for ebook coversions. So...

After messing around I found that a 150 pt top margin (0 margins on the side and bottom) converting to epub, with no other setting changes, gives me an entirely legible half-page read in small font. Of course I have to flip pages twice as often but oh well. I get the exact same number of lines (15) as I do on my Palm T3, so I am used to it. Another benefit is that I can use a portable reading light at the top and point it right at the text without any glare issue--the glare is on the worthless top half.

darknessangel · 09-23-2010, 11:27 AM

=( My condolences. I think the screen is more prone to break from strain (like bending and different pressures on different areas on the screen) than from shock (fall). The hand-to-concrete fall was also a scenario that happened to me and it was ok.

06-05-2010, 02:24 PM	#18
visually Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Daegu, Korea Device: Kindle DX	Three days ago, I bought secondhand prs-505 and I accidentally dropped my prs-505 less than a foot high. And it happened to me. Screen was cracked. I was so sad that couldn't sleep. :-( Last edited by visually; 06-05-2010 at 02:31 PM.

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03-19-2010, 03:59 PM	#17
Phirebird Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Finger Lakes, NY Device: Sony PRS-505 Blue	Don't hate yourself. Shortly after getting my 505 I came home from a trip and had a similar calamity. Upon arriving home I went to the back of my van to get out my suitcase. I looked up to see that our family room window was broken. Seems a ruffed grouse tried to fly through it as I found said bird under the window. After cleaning up the broken glass, and the cause of the broken glass, I realized I needed to move the van to allow my wife to get into the garage. I jumped in and promply backed over my suitcase, which was still sitting on the driveway behind the van. You guessed it, I destroyed my month old, much loved 505. Fortunately it was still under warranty and replaced. My replacement quickly received a nice M-Edge cover and in the end all turned out ok, even though I hated myself for quite awhile. It's tough when the only person to blame is staring back at you in the mirror. I hope things turn out well for you. I can certainly feel you pain.

06-06-2010, 04:59 PM	#19
clerky96 Connoisseur Posts: 93 Karma: 14 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Illinois - USA Device: none	I read where someones cat jumped on theirs and cracked the screen. Accidents just happen.

09-22-2010, 05:28 PM	#20
threebeers Member Posts: 18 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Palm, Sony, Nook, Literati	I'll repost this from another thread I did, hope it helps. I suggest you play around with both landscape and horizontal conversions, both epub and lrf, until you find settings you like: I bought my PRS-505 over a year ago, love it. The screen recently cracked in the luggage coming back from a trip (the cover was of no help). The top half of the screen is now worthless, but I noticed the bottom half was unaffected. Installing a replacement screen from Sony seems to be the price of a new Kindle. I was going to sell it for scrap on ebay when it I remembered that Calibre has detailed margin settings for ebook coversions. So... After messing around I found that a 150 pt top margin (0 margins on the side and bottom) converting to epub, with no other setting changes, gives me an entirely legible half-page read in small font. Of course I have to flip pages twice as often but oh well. I get the exact same number of lines (15) as I do on my Palm T3, so I am used to it. Another benefit is that I can use a portable reading light at the top and point it right at the text without any glare issue--the glare is on the worthless top half.

09-23-2010, 11:27 AM	#21
darknessangel Addict Posts: 297 Karma: 1018140 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: PRS-505, iPad	=( My condolences. I think the screen is more prone to break from strain (like bending and different pressures on different areas on the screen) than from shock (fall). The hand-to-concrete fall was also a scenario that happened to me and it was ok.

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