Product Description

Designed for use with your Amazon Kindle, the book cover protects your Kindle and the screen from scratches and breakage. The book cover is identical to the one that came with your Kindle.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4 in Amazon Devices
• Brand: Amazon
• Model: A00400
• Dimensions: 1.26" h x 5.91" w x 8.07" l, .50 pounds

Features

• Black cover with gray interior
• Folds back for easy reading
• Protects entire device with extra padding for the display.
• Integrated elastic strap holds the book cover closed

Customer Reviews

Extraordinarily Poor Cover Design
I just got my Kindle and, like most folks, love it! But the cover is poorly designed... remarkably so, as it is intended to hold and protect such a sophisticated, expensive device. There is a flat, 1.25" plastic tab inside the right-hand side of the cover that is designed to fit into a niche on the battery cover (located on the back of the Kindle). However, the niche is only a shallow indentation and there is no "catch" or "locking" mechanism that fastens the Kindle to the plastic tab. The niche itself could have easily been designed with a v-shaped indention that would grab the edge of the plastic tab, but that is not the case. The Kindle easily falls out of the cover.

Inside the spine of the book cover are two corners that fit over the left-hand corners (upper and lower) of the Kindle. They fit around the Kindle nicely, but do nothing to hold the device in place.

My solution was to use a small piece of adhesive Velcro on the back of the Kindle. I placed the Velcro on the white plastic upper back portion of the Kindle - not on the battery cover as the stress of holding the device in place will pull the battery cover off. I wait to see if I will regret putting an adhesive material on my Kindle or on the suede interior of the book cover. I find it extraordinary that this cover was so poorly designed that a user is forced to "rig" it or risk having the Kindle fall out and possibly break.

On the positive side, there is a nicely padded portion in the inner left-hand side of the cover that cushions the screen well. When the left-hand side of the book cover is folded back and secured with the elastic strap, a small ledge forms on the left-hand side that makes a decent hand-hold when reading the Kindle.

All in all, just a small adjustment in design would have made for a much more effective book cover, even using the exact same materials. If I had purchased this cover separately, I would return it immediately. I agree with the reviewer who said that Amazon should feel obligated to redesign the book cover and replace the defective design at no charge to all purchasers.

Moi's Kindle
I like having a cover but the Kindle slides alot, isn't really locked in place.

Poor System for holding the Kindle
This is the second one of these I have received. The little plastic piece that is to hold the back of the Kindle is glued to leather which becomes too loose to do its job and eventually breaks off.