at Kindleboards, so if you're over there, apologies for duplicating) First off, a horror story: Amazon shipped it in a box along with 4 bottles of carpet cleaner I had ordered, and very very little padding. The Klear Kase comes in a decorative cardboard envelope--THIN cardboard--with no real padding. When I opened the box, the Klear Kase was on the bottom, underneath about a gallon of carpet cleaner. My heart simply stopped. I thought for certain it would be cracked at the least, shattered into multiple pieces at worst. Instead, it was 100% intact. Given that it had traveled 1000+ miles loose in a box with about 8 pounds of moving, shifting weight, and came out without damage, I'm pretty sure this is one case that will survive most falls! What I did what take it out, take it apart to get at the little jewels packaged inside which are intended to cover the joystick (and are a requirement, not an option--see below), then put the lot back together without a Kindle in it. Tucked the jewel into the joystick area, because otherwise the case would have had a hole in it, then dropped it into a pan of water. Because it was empty, it floated--it won't do that with a Kindle in it as there's no room for air, and air = buoyancy. But since it was floating, I left it that way for a minute to see if the side/top seals would hold. Next, I took my hand