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Old 11-11-2016, 07:49 AM   #264
Katsunami
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I've received the Forefront cover.

Basically, it's fine, but it still has problems.

It has a cutout for the USB-port on the bottom, but strangely, it has the same cutout on the top. It does stay shut when closed: there is a magnet in the lid, and the counterpart magnet is *in the reader*. (That's the reason why the Noreve cover needs to be jammed under that lip on the right: if it sits on top of the lip, the cover doesn't stay shut.) This cover has a magnet block (sticker) inside so the sleep cover magnet doesn't put the cover to sleep when folded back.

Irritatingly enough, the sleep magnet in the lid (which is a different one than the magnet keeping the cover shut) is too small: only two or three milimeters of play is enough to turn the reader back on. One in five times, the reader doesn't shut off when you close the lid because the magnet is not *exactly* there where it should be.

I wonder why nobody can get this stuff right. Use a magnet five times as big as the detector magnet, for fracks sake.

The reader goes in and out of the cover easily; basically comparable to the Noreve. It has a bit of play between the reader and the shell on the right hand side, so it feels somewhat 'squishy' there.

Maybe I'm going to still keep the Noreve cover, hoping that the leather will loosen up so the lid falls in place more easily and doesn't sit askew. If I do, I'll have to find out what kind of magnet block sticker that is which is used in the Forefront cover.

I'll wait for the MoKo cover.

If I can't find anything to satify me in this regard, I'm going to put a magnet block into the Noreve cover, return the other covers to the respective Amazon sellers, and then sell the Aura ONE and Noreve cover as a pair. I'll then return to my four year old Kindle, even though it's only 6 inches.

I haven't the time nor patience left to keep jackassing around with this stuff, and I refuse to spend even more money on it.

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