[JSWolf]

Another good reason to have a case is a lot of new Readers such as the PW2/Voyage and H2O have the ability to have sleep covers where all you do is close the cover and the Reader is in sleep mode. This saves wear and tear on the power button. If the power button goes, you would not be able to turn on/off the Reader or do a full power off or a reset or factory reset.

Not only does the sleep cover protect the Reader, it saves wear and tear on the power button.

When I got my H2O, I never took it with me when I went out because I didn't have a case. So I only used it in the house and I was extra careful with it. I didn't even read in bed with it in case it fall off the bed. I got a case for it straight away and now I can take it with me.

A sleeve is not always a good solution (unless the sleeve fits with Reader AND case) as there are times you take the Reader out of the sleeve and then you have to put the sleeve someplace before you start to read and it's a very bad idea to go without a case when you are out and about with your Reader.

You are sitting on public transportation, you are reading, you get to your stop and you have not put your Reader away, so you get off the train onto a concrete floor, you try to put it back into the sleeve and it slips and hits the floor and breaks. If you had a case, you would have closed the cover and then tried to put it away. If it had then dropped, there would have been some protection and it might not have broken.