Fiber Fool

I finally made a decision on a cover. Wait, that isn’t quite true. I narrowed down the choices to two different M-Edge covers that are nearly identical except for the spine placement - the Executive (book style on the left) and the Platform (steno style on the right). I decided I just couldn’t be certain about which I would find more comfortable for reading. I also decided that the bare Kindle is almost too slim for comfortable reading so the sleeve option was thrown out.

And no, those who know me well you do not need to adjust your monitors. I’m thinking I may still get a skin, just to personalize it a bit. I poured through my photographs and finally decided if I do a custom skin that I’m going to use the shot of my neighbor’s front tree from early this fall. It is mostly season-neutral to me. Being both somewhat anal and creative I wanted the skin and the covers to coordinate and red was the best option. I’m wondering if I’ve just hit the magic age when everyone loves red though. I’ve always shied away from it, but over this past year I’ve been drawn to it more and more. I could blame Amanda for talking me into buying the red Eco+ yarn for Aralia last winter. Or it could be all the reds I’ve worked with for Nourishing Knits. Or maybe because photographing them is no longer an exercise in hair pulling? I don’t know, but red is creeping in.

I think my plan of attack on trying out these cover will be to give each one three days or so. After I’ve done that (hopefully including at least one walk on the treadmill at the gym for each) I will weigh them and see if there is a weight difference. I think it will be negligible. The executive has a larger spine since it is along the long side of the case so it might weigh a bit more. But I want to see if I perceive the difference during everyday use without knowing if or what the difference may be.

Before they arrived I was edging towards the Platform because it can stand up easel-like. While that is not something I require when reading at home it seemed like it would come in handy when traveling. It would allow me to set it up on the tray in the airplane and read and knit, but now that I’ve set it up that way I think the angle would not be great for reading from. I’d probably be better off either using my travel pillow or my i-Phone to prop up the top just a bit.

I am a tad disappointed in the extra width of the cases on the left hand side. I’ve tended to hold the Kindle in my left and that moves the page turn buttons to a spot I think won’t be terribly great (we’ll see after I have a bit more reading under my belt). I understand that it is there so you can store M-Edge’s reading light there in the case. The reviews and some comparisons I’ve seen in light output has me thinking their reading light is not the way to go if I should decide I need on in the future. Thus it is extra size and weight I do not actually need. I’m still not convinced I’ll need one since I sync with my iPhone and can use the backlit display of that to read in low light conditions.

I am impressed with how secure the Kindle is in the cases. It is much more secure than I expected, yet easy to remove too should I decide to read the Kindle in its bare state or need to put it in a clear ziploc to bathe or cook. I’ll have my ruling in about week.