Coincidentally, a few minutes after posting the previous post touting a third party Aura cover, Kobo sent an email to me encouraging me to buy an official cover for $US49.95. I wonder if Kobe is monitoring this forum. If so I encourage everyone to buy several Kobo Auras.
Back to the covers. It's not so bad that Kobo is changing 5 times as much as for their cover as the Chinese version. I figure the Kobo engineers developed the concept of bending around the reader a piece of faux leather with an embedded magnet. Research and development costs money and needs to be recouped. But Kobo also wants to charge me $US19.95 for postage. That is an infinite increase over the $0 postage which is what I was charged by the ebay seller. With the current crappy exchange rate between Australia and the US (thank you Mr Obama for fixing the US economy (sarcastic emoticon)) the official cover would cost me $AU78. That would be 41% of $AU188, which is what I paid for the reader alone. I don't mind paying $188 for a product that seems to be magic technology to a person born in 1961, but I do object to paying $78 for something that looks like it could have been made by a monk in a Benedictine scriptorium.
I have attached a few picture of the official cover:
Does it seem the official cover is larger than the reader? Can anyone who has an official cover confirm this?
Anyway, I am glad I opted for the unique Chinese cover. I found the official cover on line before I thought to search ebay and, but for the excessive postage, I would have bought it.
Stephen