I cannot imagine using my iPad without a case. It's not that I'm paranoid about protecting it so much as I just find it very difficult to type on without some sort of prop. Perhaps I how I use my iPad is unusual: I draft blog posts on it, use it to keep notes in meetings, and use it a lot in the kitchen for recipe display. Since I first bought the official Apple case mere days after getting the iPad I haven't used my iPad naked for more than a few hours without missing the ability to stand it up.
The official case was (rarely for Apple) both highly practical and incredibly ugly. The seam around the edge might have helped with impact absorption but it also made the iPad feel like a cheap novelty. Over the last year of iPad ownership, I've looked at multiple options, but have never found one
