This folio cover opens like a book and closes to protect even if you drop it inside the cover your ipad mini is held in a protective frame that grips its edges leaving the entire surface of your touchscreen accessible to your fingers the frame holding your ipad mini is detachable for easy one handed use inside the folio it rotates and clicks into landscape or portrait mode and folds into a workstand position a built in holder in the spine of the folio keeps your stylus at the ready