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Originally Posted by phloxy
Is anyone using a Timbuk2 sleeve (or "envelope," as the company calls them)?
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Before I received my reader, I decided on this Timbuk2 sleeve:
Kindle Touch Plush Sleeve. I first saw it at Best Buy and liked how the padding is quite firm but the interior is very soft. I thought I might try it with just an inexpensive silicon skin on the e-reader, if I wanted it to be more "grippy."
However, when I got my reader (Christmas) my husband and daughter gave me the "plain" Sony cover for it. I hadn't planned on using a cover at all, but I didn't want to hurt their feelings, so I tried it out. As it turns out, I really like it - it's low-profile and doesn't add much weight - but I feel like it's not enough protection for when my reader is traveling in my bag or laptop case (or existing anywhere in the vicinity of my three-year-old son).
Back at Best Buy, I managed to remove a Sony cover from the box and try it inside this sleeve (without getting accused of shoplifting, lol). The Kindle Touch sleeve was just a millimeter or two shy of being wide enough for the Sony+Sony cover to be a comfortable fit. Unfortunately, they didn't have that item stock for any other models. So I checked the specs online and saw that the version for the Kindle Fire has very similar dimensions but is just a touch wider (9 in. as opposed to 8.4 in.; both are 5.9 in. tall.). Here's a link:
Kindle Fire Plush Sleeve I just received it a couple of hours ago, and it is perfect! I'll take pics tonight if I have time.
The sleeve you picked out is .1 in. more narrow and .2 in shorter than the Kindle Touch sleeve I referenced, but I feel sure it will fit because the PRS-T1 is smaller in both dimensions than the Kindle Keyboard that the sleeve was made to fit. I haven't seen one in person to have an idea of how well padded it is, but it's listed as the same weight (.2 lbs) as these two, so I would guess that it was similar.
My husband paid full price for the Sony cover (about $35) and the pouch I bought was $30 (seriously overpriced IMO but I had a gift cert). The actual reader only cost me $14 more than we have spent on items to contain the reader! (I bought it during the B&H Photo sale.)
Without taking cost into consideration, I'd say I have the perfect solution for my own uses and preferences; I'm very happy with what I have. But if I do take cost into consideration, I'd say I was CRAZY to get both the case and the pouch, and I'd be better off stashing a few dollars a month as a "reader replacement fund" and forgoing both the case and the cover - maybe opting for the silicon skin, which is quite inexpensive.
Even so (putting things into perspective), the price for all three items together was the same as the price for the Sony reader alone, just a few months ago when I first started shopping for an e-reader.