A real leather cover for your Sony ebook reader

One of the great things about ebook readers is that they are so small and light.

But the downside of that is that they can be damaged quite easily by careless handling and throwing about.

So most people I know like to protect their ebook readers with a sturdy hard wearing cover, and nothing is more stylish and hard wearing than a genuine leather ebook reader cover.

Now since all ebook readers use the same eink screen, you’d expect them to be the same dimensions - but that would make it far too easy! No I’m afraid that all the major readers have slightly different dimensions, so the leather ebook reader cover than would fit one of them will not fit on a reader of a different make. So you need to be make-specific when choosing your leather ebook cover.

But the good news is that strong, stylish leather covers for them all are widely available.

For the Sony PRS505, our pick is this tough black leather case at only £29.95 including free delivery.

Or if you often use your Sony reader where it’s dark, then try this innovative cover, still genuine leather, with a built in light for only £39.95 with free delivery. I couldn’t decide which one to get for my Sony PRS 505, so I got one of each.

Check out this great small ebook reader light

Well I don’t know about you, but I like to use my Sony PRS505 ebook reader all the time. And I mean all the time.

So I read ebooks on the tube, clutch my ebook reader on the train, in bars, in restaurants - and of course last thing at night, I always spend an hour or two curled up in bed with my trusty Sony PRS505.

Now the great thing about eink in ebook readers is that it’s easy on the eye, and you can read for hours without eye strain. But the downside of this is that you need sufficient ambient light to read your ebook reader by. And sometimes I find I just can’t get in the right position to be comfy and let the bedside light illuminate my Sony PRS505 properly.

And then I stumbled across the answer at my mate’s house. His mum was doing crafts - making birthday cards and the like - and she had this brilliant little light to work by. It was small, light, and bright without being glaring. And it even had a clip on the top so she could either stand it on the table or clip it to her workspace. That’s just the thing for my ebook reader, I thought, and quizzed her about her little light.

Well it turns out it was an ebook reader light! She’d been looking on Amazon for something to make her delicate craft work brighter and come across this great range of cheap ebook reader lights from Mighty Bright. And not to be put off by the name, she’d got one to do her crafts with. They’ve got 2 LEDs that last for ever,  come in blue, silver or black, and for well under £20 are a bargain.

Believe me, I needed no prompting, and using Amazon’s great next day delivery, I was reading my ebook reader in bed

by the light of my very own silver ebook reader light the very next night. It’s incredibly light in weight, bright without glare, and the bendy head means you can set just the right angle to light up your whole eink screen. I clip mine on to the back of my cover and it’s so light it just stays there. And it’s small and light enough to slip in my back pack alongside my Sony PRS505 so it’s always there.

So if you’re tired of reading in the dark, check  out these great ebook reader lights. For around £17, you can’t go wrong.