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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
Unrequited - wanna sell your second cover?
Artsci -- were there any holes in the hinge piece, that one could sew through? I've got an Oberon journal cover (not the customized Kindle cover) that I've temporarily adapted to my Kindle 2 (will create another thread) but I was wondering if I could glue (or better yet sew) the kindle hinge in there?
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Sewing it in would not be possible. It's about 1/8" thick (.114 to be exact) and it's made of plastic. White plastic on the top side, and clear on the bottom, with melted over plastic tabs on the bottom to hold the clear in place. There's also a small spring built into the mechanism the pulls the top hinge/hook tight into the top slot on the Kindle 2 itself.
I don't know how the Oberon cover is lined, but you might be able to carefully slice open the lining, slip and glue the hinge piece in place (contact cement recommended), cover it back up with the lining, which you could glue or hand sew back into place. Not having seen the Oberon cover in the flesh, all this is speculation, of course.