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Old 12-01-2014, 10:16 AM   #18
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There are two factors which "age" a lithium battery: number of charge cycles, and a natural ageing process...
This is true.

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For a phone or a laptop, the charge cycles dominate, but for a reader, this is negligible: I doubt that many eInk devices get through as many as 10 charge cycles in a year...
Agreed. And the OP asked specifically about length of time in storage and how to go about maximizing life based on that. NOT charge cycles. The Apple link I provided gives basic information about this topic in a simple and illustrated fashion.
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