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Old 10-28-2010, 05:10 AM   #1
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My home-made kindle 3 cover

Until I could afford a better, sturdier cover for my newly-bought kindle 3, i'll be using this:







I was thinking of replacing the plastic corners to elastic garters, on all four corners. I'm gonna have to buy some.

Do you guys have your own home-made kindle covers?
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Old 10-28-2010, 06:59 AM   #2
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Heh, my homemade one (a sleeve actually) doesn't look quite as nice:





But it works, with the slight complication of having one of my cats decide to use it as a scratching pad.

I was going to cover it once more with brown duct tape, but didn't realize I was out of it. So for now, just silver (and curiously, the kindle screen seems to reflect about as much as silver duct tape)
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Old 10-28-2010, 07:42 AM   #3
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So this is my home made cover

Especially for bed reading, so I do not have to hold kindle in my hands - I just lean it on my big paunch - One hand is for holding cover and turning pages, second hand is for holding of a big piece of chocolate....

I used velcro fastener on this cover, so I can easily fasten K3 without any mod on it.
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Old 10-29-2010, 04:25 AM   #4
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@JeremyR: the kindle looks quite secure in that one.. very practical I made that cover just for bed reading and reading outside..

@jozicka: wow, that's exactly what i wanted to do with my cover.. maybe i should use velcro too..
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Old 10-29-2010, 05:48 AM   #5
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This is my homemade Moleskine cover. Took a moleskine sketchpad, cut out the notebook, bought some faux suede lining from amazon for £5 and stuck to the inside front, back and spine, cut out the surround for the kindle from the amazon packaging it was shipped in, stuck a hollowed out audio cable around the edges, and finally stuck some hitchhikers guide to the galaxy stickers on the cover. It works perfectly, and with the cable around the edge, the kindle clicks into place and is very secure, and pops out again easily.
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Old 10-29-2010, 10:02 AM   #6
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odelay - great idea to use parts of the original packaging box.
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Old 10-29-2010, 10:36 AM   #7
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This is my homemade Moleskine cover. Took a moleskine sketchpad, cut out the notebook, bought some faux suede lining from amazon for £5 and stuck to the inside front, back and spine, cut out the surround for the kindle from the amazon packaging it was shipped in, stuck a hollowed out audio cable around the edges, and finally stuck some hitchhikers guide to the galaxy stickers on the cover. It works perfectly, and with the cable around the edge, the kindle clicks into place and is very secure, and pops out again easily.

Fabulous Cover, very inventive, well done

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Old 10-29-2010, 11:08 PM   #8
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I like odelay's cover, especially that way to hold the kindle seems very unique.

While i'm still shopping around for a kindle cover that i like, i made a temporary sleeve casing for protecting my kindle in my bag. This temporary casing is made using my old organiser that i don't use anymore and the official flimsy sleeve cover from my old sony touch edition. I didn't actually do much except i removed the midsection of the organiser and taped the gaping hole. But the kindle with the sleeve fits well into the organiser.







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Old 10-29-2010, 11:24 PM   #9
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Hey good idea, i like these cover , i will also try to make one and share ti here
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Old 10-30-2010, 02:15 AM   #10
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@odelay: wow, that's genius! very creative
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Old 10-30-2010, 04:48 AM   #11
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This is my homemade Moleskine cover. Took a moleskine sketchpad, cut out the notebook, bought some faux suede lining from amazon for £5 and stuck to the inside front, back and spine, cut out the surround for the kindle from the amazon packaging it was shipped in, stuck a hollowed out audio cable around the edges, and finally stuck some hitchhikers guide to the galaxy stickers on the cover. It works perfectly, and with the cable around the edge, the kindle clicks into place and is very secure, and pops out again easily.
really inventive! and OMG i've got notebooks lying all over the house and never thought of actually using the covers! (i;ve been looking around for a cheap, stiff protective cover that would allow me to pop the K3 out and read it in the nude )

just one question: did you glue the K3 package surround to the cover?

great idea and thanks for sharing!
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Old 10-30-2010, 07:09 AM   #12
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Thanks. Yeah, I stuck a sheet of the suede lining to the inside back cover first, then used superglue to fix the package surround onto that.
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Old 11-05-2010, 11:49 AM   #14
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Until I could afford a better, sturdier cover for my newly-bought kindle 3, i'll be using this:

I was thinking of replacing the plastic corners to elastic garters, on all four corners. I'm gonna have to buy some.

Do you guys have your own home-made kindle covers?
There was another thread using the A5 journal and for further protection she had left the paper in and cut it out in the outline of the Kindle. I tried this but the cutting through a thick wad of loose paper turned out disastrous.

So I ripped all the paper out and used three layers of solid carton (from the packing of a keyboard in my case), cut out the form of the kindle, stuck the layers together with super glue, covered the whole lot with felt (use cold glue, aka wood glue).

Was really easy, looks great and adds the extra bumping protection where the whole Kindle is now sunken in a sturdy casing.
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