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Ok Thanks HarryT. That helped alot. One more question I have is the startup time: Does the 24 seconds happen when you fully turn it off?
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That's right, yes. Mine's a little quicker - about 20 seconds. Depends how many books you have on the machine.
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Because the sony boots up a lot faster than that when you just turn it off when you have battery.
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No, if you turn the Sony off (either by using the menu item on the 505, or by resetting it) it takes a good couple of minutes to boot. When you use the power switch, you aren't turning it off - you're just blanking the screen and disabling most of the buttons.
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The extra battery life by turning it off dosent make much sense to me because the e-ink display dosent use any (not very much at least) battery when its just showing a page.
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But the screen isn't the only thing that's using power; the CPU. RAM, etc, all use power too.
If the battery has died on your Sony, one thing which may interest you about the Gen3 is that it has a user-replaceable battery, unlike the Sony.