Of course they are not, I should have thought for a brief moment before posting. My panic was prompted by a flashback to when I lost a lot of music compilations on cassette tapes due to a motorcycle magnetic tank bag. Thanks for your patient correction.

Actually I am hoping that the case is not leather. I find it incongruous that we choose to encase hi tech equipment in dead animal skin. And even if it isn’t leather I also find it odd that it has to be a leather look alike. Apart from anything else all that folding, lining, seams and stitching just adds to the bulk.