PRS-350 Case suggestions: non-bulky

[Ripplinger]

Originally Posted by Poppaea

I have the green/sand coloured cover and the magnets in the cover are visible from the inside cover. There are two shorter ones in the corners of the backcover and a short one in the upper corner of the front cover and a long one in the lower part of the front cover.

Open up your cover and have the flaps away from the reader. Then hold anything metal near the cover only and see if you feel the magnetic pull, like a fingernail file, anything metal will do. You shouldn't feel any pull at all.

Do the same to the corners on the right side of the reader now, front and back, and you'll notice your fingernail file will now stick to the reader.

It's apparently just a small thin strip of metal inside the cover, the magnet is indeed on the reader itself.

[Poppaea]

Originally Posted by Ripplinger

Open up your cover and have the flaps away from the reader. Then hold anything metal near the cover only and see if you feel the magnetic pull, like a fingernail file, anything metal will do. You shouldn't feel any pull at all.

Do the same to the corners on the right side of the reader now, front and back, and you'll notice your fingernail file will now stick to the reader.

It's apparently just a small thin strip of metal inside the cover, the magnet is indeed on the reader itself.

WOW!!!!

[elizilla]

I guess it makes sense that the magnets would be on the reader itself rather than in the cover. Even if there's no spot on the device where it would be bad to have a magnet applied, magnets on the cover could pick up metal objects (like in a purse or backpack) and cause them to be dragged over the screen. But with the magnets in the device, even if something in your purse sticks to them, they'd be sticking to something that can't ever touch the screen.

It's cool that some Sony designer gave thought to covers in this way.

[brbubba]

Originally Posted by elizilla

I guess it makes sense that the magnets would be on the reader itself rather than in the cover. Even if there's no spot on the device where it would be bad to have a magnet applied, magnets on the cover could pick up metal objects (like in a purse or backpack) and cause them to be dragged over the screen. But with the magnets in the device, even if something in your purse sticks to them, they'd be sticking to something that can't ever touch the screen.

It's cool that some Sony designer gave thought to covers in this way.

Probably also has to do with the fact that the outside of the device seems to be aluminum.

[myzr]

Really interesting info about the magnets -- thanks!