Amazon Kindle Lighted Leather Cover hands-on

The Kindle Lighted Leather Cover is extremely attractive, with a glossy leather exterior available in four colors, and visual stitching around its border. Open front flap and you will be treated to a a soft, suede-like material, which should prove gentle at the reader’s six-inch display. And actually, at $60, it must be well-designed. In the end, at that price it’s almost as expensive because the $79 ad-supported Kindle. The case also adds considerable weight to the product — at 4.8 ounces, it’s nearly as heavy because the 5.98-ounce Kindle. Lots of the weight is found toward the rear of the case, which also adds a little bit thickness, as you’d expect. There are many Kindle cases which are cheaper and lighter — heck, Amazon makes a couple of itself.

But what the case lacks in relative affordability and portability, it makes up in glorious light. It has a built-in reading lamp, which connects to both metal tabs at the rear of the hot Kindles, letting the reader power the sunshine. The sunshine is found at the top of the duvet, somewhat arm that, once swung out, lights up the screen. It’s small but powerful, and will handily illuminate front of the reader, even in total darkness. Take a look at the pic below whenever you think we’re exaggerating!

The Kindle slips into the canopy quite nicely. The possibilities that the device will fall out of the case if you are reading are quite small — after all, once it’s in, it takes a great deal of prying to get out. Once you have got the reader nestled in there, that you can flip front cover around and out of how.

The Kindle Lighted Leather Cover is currently up for pre-order from Amazon, with the fourth-generation case expected to ship November 15th, followed by the Kindle Touch version per week later. Both will run you $60, which, again, is a smidge pricey — particularly for the $79 reader. Still, it nevertheless it can be worth the investment for those of you who are likely to give your gadgets a beating. Given the delayed shipping time, though, it can’t hurt to kill your time looking into cheaper, third-party cases, right?

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