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Old 07-13-2010, 09:52 AM   #27
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Originally Posted by Bismar View Post
I beg to differ actually, one of the key selling points to me was the 8000 page turns. I get less then half of that.

If a new unit makes no difference, then its pure blatant false advertising.
Really? 8000 page turns is about 20-30 typical novels on the smallest font. That's a hell of a lot of reading, and I'd suspect that for most people would take more than 2 weeks to complete - and 2 weeks was the other half of the advertising on the battery life.

From the "How many books do you read...?" thread in one of the other forums, it looks fair to say that most people are reading under 100 books a year, or at most 4 books every two weeks. That's still going to be well under the 3000 page turns Bismar got.

So I'm struggling to see how a mere 3000 pages would be a make-it-or-break-it issue for anyone, since that would mean having to plug the unit in for a few hours every three weeks or so. Especially when, if you're reading that much, you'll have to plug it in to sideload the books onto it in the first place.
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