'Safe'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
My key thing was getting the smallest case possible. It's a leather envelope type--not even that--the Nook slips in and stays by friction, and the end is open so I can charge it in there. This profile, but too tight to take the Nook out by pulling it, there's a tab you yank on. It was the tiniest one I could find-it only adds maybe 5mm all round.
However, buying at the BN store was probably the dumbest financial decision.
I have a Nook cover that looks like a book cover which is the one my mom bought when she got us the Nook. It scares me a bit because it is seemingly flimsy compared to every other cover we have on things (otterboxes on phones, tablets etc.... I think if I could otterbox my life, I might survive better).
So far I'm decently good at not dropping shit (and the Nook looks like it will bounce okay...let's tempt fate some more) but having seen what two slips did to my sister's iPod Touch...sheeit. Better be careful.
My Kindle felt a little too slick to me without the cover. And between cats and kids and my own tendency to spill stuff occasionally, I like having the cover on mine.
I did buy another one, but when it arrived it smelled so horribly of vinyl and dye or something, I had to put it away. I also didn't like it as much as this one S. got for on clearance at TJ Maxx, I think.
The case was part of my Christmas present, otherwise I might have picked something like this [link]
ZOMG. Very cool. But I want a thin case to retain the nice, slim portability the Kindle has.
I bought this type of case for my kindle. I like it because if I am traveling I feel it is cushioned enough to throw it in my backpack with other stuff.
This is the case I bought for my kindle.
A recording of Flannery O'Connor reading "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" at Vanderbilt University, 1959.
The 10th anniversary edition of Neil Gaiman's American Gods is available on the Kindle for $1.99 - [link] . Dunno for how long, so probably best to grab while you can.
Which raises a different Kindle issue - where do y'all go to find out about Kindle/e-book deals? I regularly check out Daily Cheap Reads but are there other places I should be looking as well?