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I currently have all my ereaders in cases, mostly for the convenience of the sleep cover. I've often used them around the house with no case in the days before sleep covers. I got my first ereader in 2009 and I didn't get a case for it. Since then I've probably had 15 or 20 ereaders since I'm kind of a gadget freak. I've used most of them most of the time without cases.
The only one that ever got a scratch on the screen was a Kindle that I loaned to a neighbor with a dog, which scratched the screen while she was reading even though the Kindle had a case at the time. I leave my readers sitting around the house, here and there, where I'm never far from one. None of them has ever been damaged.
So to say that it's wise to use a case and unwise not to, probably true for some people and some situations, isn't always true. Sometimes it just doesn't matter. Several years of convenience might outweigh the rist of a scratched screen. It's not about wisdom. It's an individual thing.
By the way, before I got my first Kindle in 2009 I read ebooks on a Palm for many years. I never had a case or a screen protector and I never damaged or scratched one.
The same is true for tablets. I don't use them with cases. I leave them lying around although I'm always careful to place them screen down on a safe, soft surface. I've scratched one screen and that scratch isn't visible when it's turned on.
I have nothing against covers. I'm currently using them on my readers because of the sleep screen. But I see no problem or lack of wisdom in not using one as long as one is aware of what they're doing.
Barry
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