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Originally Posted by HarryT
I would suggest that you're likely, in those situations, to just put the reader down unprotected, and that's when mishaps can easily occur.
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Occur - yes. But "easily"?
Unless you are really clumsy chances that you break your reader that way are pretty low. The scenario you describe can also be applied on another household good which is if anything more breakable than a reader - Dishes. How many dishes did you break in the last years during normal handling?
For me in the last 4 years this number is zero. I broke two, but both not during normal handling, but because they slipped out of my towel when I was drying them. So I do not think that is a danger high enough to make a cover anywhere near a "must have".
Speaking of readers, personally in the last 4 years my reader never ever fell off somewhere when I put it down after reading. Once it fell down before reading, though. It was a short throw of it on my bed and it bounced off that badly that it went to the floor. No damage though despite it being totally naked. Needless to say I do not make such stunts with it anymore.
So I would overall call the chance of a reader breaking without cover as hugely overstated.
I would classify for myself using a cover having about the same benefit as using a helmet in the car. Sure it would add protection and some people need it, but benefit is for me so minimal that it is not anywhere near worth the discomfort.
And let's not forget that as crossi said Covers do not grow on trees. Even if I would break on average a reader every 2 years due to not using a cover I could get a replacement (meaning a 2 year old used reader of the same model from ebay) for about the same price as the cover would cost me (~$40).
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Originally Posted by HarryT
But at the end of the day it's a personal choice. If you're happy to live with the increased chance of breaking, that's nobody's decision but yours to take.
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Indeed. Which is exactly why making a blanket statement like "
it is foolish to use a reader without cover" is ridiculous.
Not because it is "an opinion" but because it is a blanket statement. The only blanket statement which is generally correct is "
My situation is not the same as that of everyone else.".