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Originally Posted by HamsterRage
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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FWIW, I just counted: in the 12 months to today, I've read 37 books totalling 14925 pages (real, paper pages, not Kobo screensful—only counting what I read for pleasure), or 622 pages every two weeks. On PDFs, where I have them (can't compare epub; no idea if the power drain is the same, better, or worse for PDF vs. epub), it seems to require about 4-5 page-turns per physical page, so call it just shy of 3000 page turns every 2 weeks, if I read them as PDFs. But——I read in bursts: get through several books, then read nothing much for a month or more, etc., not smoothly, so I'd at least double that to account for the peaks. So
IF I read everything on the Kobo (which is never going to happen), and
IF I cared about running for two weeks at a time between charges (which is also highly unlikely), then getting much less than 7–8000 page turns per two weeks could in fact be a problem.