[Katsunami]

Well... it looks like you bought the bright blue version. Sorry, but the dude can't abide.

I've tested the original cover in the store. It works. At least with firmware 4.2.8110, it's 100% reliable up until now. I've not been able to make it fail. With regard to floppyness: I assumed it would be floppy. It is.... bendable, but much more rigid than I thought. If you open the cover 180 degrees and then hold it at the corners on the spine side, it actually sticks straight out.

A few observations:
- The back of this cover is soft. Most Chinese covers are hard plastic.
- The reader slips into and out of the cover easily. Some Chinese ones take a lot of effort, especially in getting the reader out.
- The cover sticks to the reader, and stays closed when turned upside down. Most Chinese ones do this too.
- The cover actually sticks to the back as well, when folded over. None of the Chinese ones I've tried did this.
- The reader stays asleep, even if the lid is not perfectly straight on top of the screen. It's not possible to wake the reader up by moving the lid through its maximum amount of play. The sleep magnet in the cover is thus large enough.
- The stand function should have been left out. It requires brute force bending of the cover to get the reader to stand. I've not wanted to try this.
- Build quality isn't better or worse than the cheap Chinese covers; it's just different materials.

The one downfall of this cover is its idiotic €50 price tag. If it cost €25 or less, I'd highly recommend it over any third party cover, but now, it might be worth it to play the Chinese cover lottery once or twice. You might get lucky.

I wonder if the €12 Forefront case would have worked had I kept it. I've determined that I can't order it again, because Forefront actually doesn't make most of its cases. They buy from different manufacturers, then have their "Fc" logo stamped onto the case, and then they sell it. As you have seen with me buying the exact same cover that worked for you (only in black), its still a lottery if you stay with the same seller or even manufacturer.

I decided to go with the original cover because I've already lost 4x €6 (shipment of Chinese covers, could be returned for free), and €5 + €6.75 (shipping back and forth to Noreve). That's €35.75 down the drain with nothing to show for it.

Selling the reader for €175 or so would lose me another €50. Then I figured I could 'lose' (as in, not have) that €50 by getting the original cover, as I do like the KA1 hardware wise, because of the screen that's about the perfect size for me. Much bigger than 6 inch, but not so large as to become unwieldy.