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Originally Posted by issybird
The following article showed up in my feed and it did make me snicker a little:
8 Reasons You Don’t Need a Case-Cover for Your E-Reader
Some of it’s flat-out wrong (there are plenty of aftermarket Kobo covers), some of it’s debatable, but some points seemed unassailably right to me.
Among the last, ereader covers are ridiculously expensive. It’s against my religion to spend more than $10 on a cover; however, if you wait and watch and aren’t too picky, it can be achieved. The prices on OEM covers are extortionate, a ridiculously high percentage of the price of the device itself.
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but it’s too much work to be constantly popping the reader into and out of the cover. So if it doesn’t serve a real purpose, why bother?
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I've seen 3rd party covers in the supermarket for Apple stuff at €50 and no better quality than the phone cover in same supermarket for my Alcatel at €8, or Trust brand generic 10" covers I've bought for 3 makes of 10" Tablet (only one was mine) and works on DXG too at €10.
I've bought cheap 3rd party covers online at same time for Kindle PW3, Kobo H2O original and Libra original. If I'm going to read in bed or for a long time I pop the Libra out of the cover; it pops out easily.
The Elipsa came with a cover and pen. Buying the power cover and pen for the Sage are so expensive at the time (both have reduced a bit) even online that it would have made the Sage nearly the same price as the Elipsa.
I'd only take the Sage out to my daughters house at same time as Libra, either in a messenger bag I have or in the laptop bag. I proof read on the Libra and use the Sage for additional notes not suitable as annotations. Most reading for pleasure is on the Sage. Since I got the Sage I now only use the big Elipsa for PDFs too big even with KOReader cropping or pre-crop using ImageMagick on anything else. Though I don't have KOReader on the Sage yet.
I think it depends on your usage if a cover is important. The wake/sleep is handy and allows Kobo power button to do screenshots (or it did, not tried it lately).
I hollowed out an A6 notebook as a cover for the 5" Sony PRS-350; I think it has a clip on hinged cover but I've never seen it. I'd not put an ereader in my pocket or a backpack without a cover. I'd only take the 5" Sony or 7" Libra out in my pocket. I occasionally loan out my original H2O in its cover to local people wanting to comment on a copy of a draft of a book, but most of those people have their own ereader, or prefer a phone in odd spare moments.