I finally gave in and bought myself a case for the Fire tab. I didn't want to spend a lot of money on a case when I had a small amount invested in the tab, but found a nice case on ebay for $4.99
http://www.ebay.com/itm/221936684377...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
It took a couple of weeks to get here, probably was directly from China, but is a nice case.
I'm really liking the Fire tab. So far so good, no real problems or issues with it, and even though it is a modified version of Lollipop, the OS is quite good.