We know there’s an aerosol to make your Nook smell like a new book, a musty old one, or crunchy bacon. Now there’s a way to make your Kindle look like a copy of the New Yorker.

Today we were solicited by Conde Nast Publications, publisher of the New Yorker, inviting us to take advantage of a 20%-off offer to buy a jacket for our Kindle utilizing iconic cover art from the grand old magazine. The publisher is co-opping with the manufacturer of the covers, M-Edge.

M-Edge’s Kindle caddies solve a vexing problem we wrote about not long ago:

As the E-Book Era unfolds, you will never again be able to form an instant impression of a stranger from the book he or she is reading, or send a signal of your own. Why? Because, in Kaufman’s words, “for the purpose of sizing up a stranger from afar, perhaps the biggest problem with Kindle or its kin is the camouflage factor: when no one can tell what you’re reading, how can you make it clear that you’re poring over the new Lincoln biography as opposed to, say, ‘He’s Just Not That Into You’?” Kaufman describes the Kindle as “the technology equivalent of a plain brown wrapper.”

RC