![]() Of all the readers I’ve owned, none has met death by water exposure. With the new Clara being waterprooof, it might reconsider. I was not interested in the Clara when it was release because it was too similar to the Glo HD – the only new feature that would have interested me was the different light temperatures, but it was not sufficient for me to want to upgrade. Since it doesn’t have any buttons, it probably wouldn’t be affected if I were to take it with me in the bathtub but I never dared. I replaced the broken Sony with the Kobo Glo HD which I love and use to this day. Ever since that experience, I love the idea of a waterproof ereader. Even after letting the ereader dry a few days, the buttons never worked again. I assume the steam and condensation from the bath corroded the button contacts. The ereader had a touch screen to turn the pages of a book but to access other functions, you needed to use buttons. I didn’t drop it in the water or anything but just the steam and condensation affected it because even before I was out of the bathtub, it started playing up, pages turning by themselves, etc and within an hour became completely unuseable when the menu button stopped working. I had a Sony PRS-950 with a 7 inches screen which I loved. Why should everyone else have to pay more for my (potential) clumsiness?įiled Under: eBook Readers Tagged With: waterproof If I had to buy another device to make up for it then I probably wouldn’t drop it in water again. If I’m clumsy enough to drop my Kindle or Kobo in water, I feel like that’s my own fault and I should have to pay for the mistake. I’ve never had a device ruined by getting wet so I guess I just don’t understand the appeal of waterproof ereaders. ![]() I get that some people like reading in the bath, but even still how many people are regularly dropping their device in the tub, and it’s not like your ereader is suddenly going to go flying 6-10+ feet out of your hand when sitting by a pool or on the beach. To me, the whole “waterproof” thing is just a gimmick. ![]() You can get a Kindle Paperwhite for $139 or a Kobo Libra 2 for $179. Why are we all having to pay more for waterproof designs when 99.9% of us are likely to never make use of this “feature”? Even if it only adds $5 more to the overall price, it’s not like we’re dealing with a super expensive $1000 phone. These devices aren’t functional underwater, and you’re supposed to let them dry out if they get wet. If you read the stipulations at Amazon it says that waterproof Kindles can withstand being in 2 meters of fresh water for up to 60 minutes and 0.25 meters for 3 minutes in seawater. It’s more like water-resistant, and only for short times in small amounts of water. ![]() This “waterproofing” thing really only helps ereaders that have been completely submerged in water.Ĭalling these devices “waterproof” is a bit of a misnomer anyway. I would contend that most non-waterproof devices can withstand being splashed with a small amount of water if you wipe it off and don’t let it seep in. How many devices are actually being saved by this feature? One in ten thousand, maybe? One in twenty thousand, perhaps? How many people are really going around dropping their ereaders in bodies of water? This is a thing that never made any sense to me.
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