Introduzione

If you have scratches on the screen surface of a kindle, instead of changing the whole screen part, you may peal off the surface layer (light guide) and replace with a PET screen protector (common smartphone screen protectors)

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    • To save your time, yes the screen surface layer, or officially named light guide, can be easily peeled off.

    • Don't worry, it will not damage the touch screen and will not affect the touch sensitivity.

    • Then you can crop any common anti-glare PET screen protector into suitable size to replace the light guide

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    • Actual guide starts from here, first uncover the frame. You may refer to other Kindle disassembly guide if you want more detailed steps.

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    • Start to peel off from any of the 4 corners. Just be careful not to scratch the touch screen, which is the glossy surface under this plastic light guide.

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    • This is the peeled off light guide. which is an anti-glare layer.

    • It has a thin sticky layer at the back to stick to the touch screen

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    • After peeling off the original light guide, replace with any common anti-glare PET screen protector

    • You may get a matt screen guard designed for kindle. But this one I got lower the resolution of the screen, i.e. the text became less clear.

    • I then tried another anti-glare iPad PET screen protector. Cut it into Kindle's size. This one does not lower the resolution, but the anti-glare effect is not as good as the original light guide.

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    • Refer to the image, the left is a PW with original light guide and the right is the one with iPad protector

    • The anti-glare-ness is not as good as before but at least the annoying scratches are gone. If you found any good anti-glare screen protector that is as good as the original nanoiprinted light guide. Please share with everyone.

Conclusione

To fix a PW with scratched display in a low cost. Instead of replacing the whole integrated screen part, we can replace the light guide with an anti-glare PET screen protector.

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Membro da: 11/12/22

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9 commenti

Does the light work with the non original light guide layer?

Cyberman -

Yes the backlight will still work, 100%, no worries.

potechto -

Also thank you very much for the guide

Cyberman -

Thank you, fingers crossed, will try. I’ve managed to get these deep scratches on 2 kindles.

Cyberman -

Good luck! Feel free to share with us your fixing experience

potechto -

What anti-glare iPad PET screen protector did you buy?

Stefan -

It doesn't even have a brand, I just bought a cheap one. Just get an anti-glare protector for any recent ipad, because the resolution of ipad is higher than Kindle I think

potechto -

Congratulations on the article, it has been tremendously useful for me. I have a couple of devices that are quite scratched, and your article has been extremely helpful. For now, I will use a tempered glass as a protector. I may use an anti-glare film on my second device to compare the results.

Pedro Ayala -

I'm glad to hear that. It's always a joy to to me give an old device a new life, especially in a low cost way. feel free to share with everyone the comparison result!

potechto -