Review: Taking on Another Case
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 28, 2014
This is the fourth Kindle Fire case I've acquired through the Vine program.  The first was from MarBlue and it's good overall except for the hideous bright green color.  Then came two Belkin ones--one regular and one with a minikeyboard--that weren't very good, the keyboard one being extremely obnoxious to type on.Now we have this.  And you might ask, do you really NEED four cases?  No but what the heck it was free for me and it might be better.  There aren't an instructions included, so it took me a moment to realize it was a lot easier to wrestle the soft plastic blue part on if I took off the hard white plastic shell.  Whether that's the preferred way or not I can't say.  Snapping the white plastic shell back on wasn't too difficult.  The case overall fits good and unlike others it's easier to find the power and volume buttons because of the raised controls on the case.  It even makes it easy just by touch to know which is the power and which is the volume.  You may think, "Well duh" but when you've flipped the Kindle around a couple times reading comics and stuff sometimes you forget which side you've got it on.Of all the cases I've tried this stands the best.  The hard plastic stand is a lot sturdier than any of the others, especially the Belkin ones.  Those ones if you breathe on the thing it'll probably fall over.The drawback is easily visible.  Because there's no cover, the front of the Kindle is always exposed, which means if you want to travel with it you should really make sure you should have it in something padded so you won't get stuck with an almost $200 paperweight.So far I'd rate this in second place behind the MarBlue, which despite its ugliness still has the best overall combination of features.That is all.