image Like most Kindle customers, I’ve been underwhelmed by the cover that came with the device.

I spent the past couple of weeks test-driving a number of replacement covers, and I found a winner: the M-Edge Leather Executive Jacket. I love the M-Edge for several reasons.

1. It securely holds my Kindle in place without the need for a MacGyver-like solution that I implemented with the Amazon case. (If you trust the Amazon case to hold your Kindle you know what I’m talking about. The plastic clip really doesn’t work, so I wound up adding a bit of Velcro to keep it from slipping out.)

The Executive Jacket has nice, leather wraps on three of the four corners, and the Kindle fits snugly in place. The fourth corner has an elastic band that allows for easy insertion and removal from the jacket. The whole package provides a great fit.

2. I appreciate that the Executive Jacket has several sleeves on the inside. I can carry a small tablet of paper, business cards, SD cards and a pen/pencil. Everything fits comfortably inside without creating any bulges. I always worry about a foreign object rubbing against the Kindle screen. While the Amazon cover has a nice padded interior, I think the M-Edge jacket will be just as protective, even with all these items placed in the facing flap.

3. The Executive Jacket just looks great. I don’t know what the material is on the outside of the Amazon device, but if it’s leather it’s nowhere near as nice as the leather in the M-Edge product. Other Kindle owners have noted that the M-Edge doesn’t have the padding on the facing flap that the Amazon cover offers; I figure I’m always going to have a tablet of paper in there anyway, so it really doesn’t matter.

An honorable mention goes to another M-Edge product, the Leisure Jacket (which, for some reason, sounds like "leisure suit" to me). The Leisure Jacket is designed to solve a different problem. If you’re taking your Kindle to the beach or if it will be around a lot of fluids, dust, etc., you ought to consider the Leisure Jacket. It almost completely envelops your Kindle and features a clear vinyl front so that you can read from the device without opening the jacket. The jacket wraps all the way around the Kindle but I still found all the buttons easily accessible, even the thumbwheel (thanks to a small cut-out in the vinyl front).

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4 COMMENTS

  1. I’ve had my Kindle for 11 months now and never had the problem some folks seem to have with their cover.

    The plastic clip works fine for me but I can see that the manufacturing tolerance might vary enough so that some don’t hold the Kindle as snugly as others.

    I’d be very wary about putting anything in the front flap that would rest on the screen of the Kindle. If it accepts a pad of paper larger than the screen that might be ok.

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