Thanks for the sympathy; I really miss the thing

--I love being able to get new books whenever I feel like it, and being able to read more than one at a time--all in my purse.
I think I'm actually going to take the rings out of an old zippered organizer I found laying around that just happens to fit the cybook perfectly and use some velcro, like on another thread. I like carrying the cybook in my purse and I'm afraid it will get damaged if stuff gets in the cracks, or if a coin or nail file( or rock or shell or some other treasure that absolutely *must* be deposited in my purse to preserved in perpetuity)slips in the case. Just the grit that seems to accumulate in my purse(for some reason

) is probably not good for it. In any case, I find it easier to turn the pages when the cybook is nekkid.