Kindle 3 Cases: The Leather Lies Flow Like Water - Acase, Mivizu et al.

[SoraTodi]

I like this actually, but you have to admit that in today's world people don't know real leather, I actually tooled out a leather case that was nice, until the dog got a hold of it, and that chemical smell is annoying, but it also is the ways that leather is treated now, and there is a feel that is fake that more people like than not, so it's what goes now, but I totally get what you mean.

[srmrmatt]

Excellent choice. The ONLY real choice for the serious leisure reader. The other solutions are two-gadget logistical affairs, whereas this is sleek, in one very convenient piece. Amazon's price is outrageous but you pay it once you realize how lousy the other solutions are. Re-reading this, I am having chemical odor headache flashbacks. Yikes.

P.s. Months on and I still love the official lighted case. I abuse it and it has kept my kindle screen-crack and damage free through multiple long drop

[NirreFirre]

Very nice video review! But I think I can clarify the material those cheaper covers (at least the first one since I got one of those from eBay) use "a split leather with a layer of polyurethane applied to the surface and then embossed" - See Wikipedia for Bicast leather, also known as bycast/split/PU Leather. So, it's leather in a way but the result is - as you say - cheap, smelly, plasticky but perhaps also easier to clean/maintain and keep consistent.. I'll get the lighted Amazon :)

[srmrmatt]

You can always return it, but for my money (and I am a cheap bastard), there is no better case than the Amazon "official" kindle lighted case. Kindle 2 cases were much better, the third-party manufacturers got cheap, but are cranking out headache-inducing cases that reek and don't have that nice hand-feel you'd expect from leather. Judge for yourself and reply back. I read glowing reviews on all of the cases in the video, yet none felt that way to me. I suspect some are leather some are not.

[tvxxlover1867]

Uh oh I ordered the m edge go case from amazon just right now... Is it a nice case

[MRCAB]

If it melts, it's not leather. lol

Thanks. This video was very helpful. There are a lot of leathers out there with strange plastic coatings on them that might fool people into thinking they're not leather; just not very good leather :-p

[ryanhayn]

You need to turn up the audio. I can barely hear you with my laptop turned all the way up.

[srmrmatt]

So, bottom line, the lighted cover is so far and above any other combo solution that it makes it well worth "crying once" and getting. The transition from day to night, light to dark now is so seamless as to be an absolute joy.

[srmrmatt]

I love the "moleskine" look of both amazon covers, but the "magic disappearing" lamp and the fact that it needs no batteries (ever) to me was enough to get this tightwad to spend the money on the lit cover. I got it and haven't looked back. Yes it's expensive ($60 to cover a $139 device...well in my case, a $189 device, but the extra $50 was WELL worth it because I have no smartphone or data plan...free "anywhere" internet is just brilliant and very useful, as clunky as it may be to use).

[srmrmatt]

@richit (continued) ...so for like $25 more, I got a seriously well integrated and most importantly NON-FRUSTRATING light that goes anywhere and is always perfectly positioned. You know what they say, when you buy quality you only cry once...very much the "case" here. The lighted cover is easily the way to go.

[srmrmatt]

@richit I ended up buying the non-lit cover from my local Target store (as in the video), but then after some time using either my Rayovac RLA3AAA "necklace" booklight (junk) and then using an ikea Jansjo lamp on my bedside table (limiting ereader placement) I ended up RELENTING on my vow to NOT buy the "way too expensive" lighted cover...

[ritchit]

Good video! I had the Amazon non lighted cover like yours but had to return it because as weird as it may sound, it made my Kindle lock up in off mode and would not let me turn it on using the power switch. The only solution was to hold the power switch for 15 seconds to reboot it. This would only happen while my Kindle was in the cover so I left the kindle out of the cover for a few days and had no lockup issues. Amazon knows about this is trying to correct it. Did this ever happen to you?

[TolentinoA1]

Get the expensive 60 dollar one then !!!!

[FRAinformation]

@TolentinoA1 I did !!! In the video, I show the "official" kindle case I got, which I have been extremely happy with. Then I upgraded to the one with the light, and love it. Cry once and enjoy it every day thereafter. Those other cases can't hold a candle to the official case(s).

[kenydemeza]

thx man cuz i just got one.....