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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
It's a foolish owner, indeed, who decides not to buy a cover.
This is my opinion, of course.
Do some ebook owners choose not to buy a cover? But, of course!
However: A slip of the hand, a turn of the wrist, an accident with a speeding bus, or a toppling building can only spell disaster.
Your opinion may differ.
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Wellll.. we have to differentiate between a cover and sleeve here.
A cover/sleeve for when you transport it in your bag? Definitely.
But a cover to use when reading? Sorry, I do not really see the point there from a protection POV. If it slips out of your hand while reading(*) the sensitive part of the reader - the screen - is already unprotected.
Unless you get lucky and it falls in such a way so it "closes" itself. But especially with the new cover I do not see an high chance for that.
If cover or sleeve depends in the end if you rather having more bulk when reading, but no bother with slipping it in and out of a sleeve or not additional bulk when reading, but more "work" and the start and end of it with slipping it in and out of a sleeve.
Personally I am using a Kindle since the Kindle Keyboard and since then have "killed" 2 Kindles. In first case neither a cover nor sleeve would have saved it, in the second case both a cover or sleeve would have saved it. Since the latter case I am using a sleeve for mine (and reading with my Kindle "naked").
(* Speaking for the Kindle PW, personally I have a better grip on my "naked" one than on the one of my mother, who is using the official cover. Mainly due to the somewhat gummed back of the PW which has IMO more grip than the textured plastic of the hull. So I would say that for me using a cover would actually increase the chance to let it drop accidentally.)