Pool_Mike: A leaf bagger is FAR cheaper than a solar cover. If you are getting lots of leaves, I'm guessing you are in a climate where you have to close your pool for the winter. If you use your solar cover in cold to freezing temps, you'll ruin it. It gets stiff and inflexible and, with ice, the bubbles burst.

There are leaf nets that you can get instead that aren't expensive and will catch the vast majority of leaves.