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Originally Posted by Katsunami
For people who have this cover already: is it hard, both from the front and the back? I have a third party sleep cover for my KPW1, and it's as hard as a hardcover book.
I need that because I carry the reader in my work bag in public transport, and I don't want it to get damaged if someone bumps into the bag or it gets dropped or something. The Kindle has been surviving daily public transport trips for almost four years now, without a single scratch.
Awaiting a cover, I now use a soft, cheap neoprene 8 inch tablet sleeve to temporarily protect the KA1, so it doesn't lie around the house naked. I don't dare put it into my work bag like that though, so I'm now reading a book on the KA1, and short stories on the Kindle in public transport until I can get a cover for the KA1.
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The cover is hard, but the front not
quite as stiff as the Amazon voyage cover and, being larger, more possible to bend very slightly and of course the fold adds to that possibility. But I consider it good protection although I generally don't carry it with other items in a bag. I've also had the random touch from the cover before sleep either turning a page or opening an option. The back cover is hard. The feel of the leather is slightly softer than that of the voyage cover. One thing I have only seen with one third-party cover is the front being held magnetically to the back, which I like a lot. As mentioned, the top doesn't hold as well as the part below the fold, but most front covers don't hold at all. The voyage front cover is held very firmly to the back when folded or in easel position.
It's a little thinner, but stiffer, than the early kindle covers from Amazon, but the difference, of course, is that the cover rests on the screen, whereas with the raised bezels of the earlier ones it didn't.