[harryo]

Like someone else, I ordered both the book jacket and the sleeve from M-edge, to see which worked better. I think the book jacket will be a bit of a $US40 white elephant, at least for my purposes.

The main reason is that you can't easily access the pen slot when the Iliad is in place. Sure, there's a nice little pair of loops for it inside the jacket, but that becomes useless as soon as the digitiser turns itself off. You need to be able to put the stylus back into the holder to turn it on again. Since you effectively have to partially remove the Iliad from the jacket to get at it, you may as well leave the pen in the holder.

So, if you're just reading page after page, it'll be fine, but as soon as you need to do something that requires the pen, it's going to be a pain.

I also think the jacket is a bit bulky and I don't like the asymmetric nature of it ... the spine is significantly larger than the thickness of the Iliad, which means that when closed, the cover slants down towards the right.

The sleeve, on the other hand, fits well (after a bit of fiddling) and gives you good access to the pen holder. I'll probably use that 95% of the time.

Of course, your mileage may vary.