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Originally Posted by Skydog
There has been some unnecessary hand-wringing posted on threads here and other forums concerning the "cracking" issue. I've never experienced any problems, nor have my many colleagues when using the Amazon case.
IMHO, a little common sense and care in handling goes a long way. The front of the cover is clearly labled with a small Amazon badge and is obvious. That said, Amazon has been quite fair in replacing units, if needed.
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I'd generally agree, and with my Kindle, I had no serious issues with this, however it can not be denied that it's an awfully flawed design. It's almost as though they went out of their way to make this issue likely to occur. On several occasions, though it never damaged my kindle or case, my hand slipped or a similar event occurred and the back cover got pulled away from the Kindle. Each time making me cringe, expecting a snap.
There's no excuse for this poor design. With a spine-locked connector design, the only feasible reasoning behind such a design would be to allow bidirectional folding in a case like that. Since the case can't fold both ways, it should've attached fixedly to the K2. As someone else mentioned, a little velcro can solve that problem nicely (if you don't mind sticking something to your kindle.) But, I suspect a magnet in the case would've done just as well. I'm fairly sure the Kindle DX works this way.
I find it unacceptable for Amazon to promote the idea that it's okay that they released a product which is practically designed to break the Kindle it's officially associated with. They should be recalling them, not sending chiding emails to the owners of them.