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I have both a Kindle and a Kobo and while I prefer the Kindle my reasons are personal, meaning they might not apply to everyone. I do think the Kindle is the better device overall but when both are so very good that's not saying much.
If I could only have one I'd pick the Kindle but if I somehow had to pick the Kobo I wouldn't be the least bit unhappy. It's also a very fine reading machine.
As for cases, I always use 3rd party cases. I have a number of devices actually, not just a single Kindle and Kobo, but several of each, each with it's own cover. I think I paid $12 for one of the covers but most were under $10. I've been using these for a few years and all are pretty much still like new. So they last, they fit and they weigh a lot less than the manufacturer supplied cases.
The cases for my Kobos are every bit as good as the cases for my Kindles. There's no real advantage there.
As for durability of the devices themselves, in the house I don't use a case. Those are for when I leave the house. I'm always loaning them to my neighbors, with cases of course, so they can read a book. I guess I've been doing this for 5 or 6 years and none has ever been damaged with the sole exception of one with a scratched screen when a neighbor's dog scratched it. It was under warranty and Amazon replaced it even though I told them it wasn't a defect.
I think the Kindle does have one advantage that's worth considering, at least in the USA, although this might not be true where you are, and that's Amazon's book store. I buy nearly all my books from Amazon.
I also use Calibre so I can read those books on either device. As Meera said there's a small learning curve but once learned converting a book from Amazon to read on my Kobo takes less than a minute from the time I drag it into Calibre till it's in Dropbox, which I then access with my Kobo to download. Doing all this really is trivial once you learn how and it's not hard to learn how.
Calibre will even put the book on your device for you and that's even faster but it involves connecting a cable and I prefer sending it to Dropbox where I can also access it from my phone.
Barry
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