Review: Massive - make sure you need it...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 18, 2014
For regular household use of a Kindle tablet, even when I facture in a toddler that is constantly trying to abuse it, I found the Defender to be great overkill. I can see the appeal of something like this in industrial settings or if you are watching a bull riding howto on youtube while riding a bull at the rodeo; otherwise this case adds a lot of bulk and heft to a device which excels from the start at being very slim and very light. That being said, it is high quality, precision engineered, fits well, the kindle is easy to put in and take out back. You will also need to have cables with ultraslim connectors to keep the Kindle plugged into the microusb or audio cables while being dressed up in this case.While generally I would not mind massive amounts of extra protection, I am not crazy about the design. They take something as slim and fluid as a Kindle HDX and turn it into the toughbook-looking corner-y full of right angles and squares design that makes it very unlike the device it is protecting. So it *fits the Kindle*, but *it has not been designed for the Kindle* - there is a subtle difference for those who care. I do.