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Originally Posted by ManosHandsOfFate
- Considering I've been spending most of my time reading in airplane mode with the touchscreen off, the battery life really isn't that great. Definitely not a show stopper but I'd rather not be charging it every 3 or 4 days. I know people argue that it's not a big deal and that we all charge our smart phones every day anyway but that argument doesn't hold water for me - I'd also rather not charge my smart phone every day.
- I think it's a bit heavy. I do some of my reading one-handed on crowded subway cars and the weight is less than ideal for that type of reading. One of the reasons I originally wanted an e-reader was to replace large trade paperbacks and the occasional hard cover that I carry during my commute. Will going down a 3 ounces in weight with a K3 make a big difference? I'm not sure.
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I agree both of these are negatives. I personally liked the size and weight of my JBL, but the reflective LCD was not as easy on the eyes as the eink with a desk lamp for me and the JBL was constantly crashing and freezing something that has yet to happen for me with the nook. I adjusted to the weight of the nook pretty easily.
The battery issue is a negative, but such a minor one. 3-4 days a charge is a pretty small inconvenience. I like the kindle, but I find no ePub support to be a much bigger issue than battery life. I would gladly charge a kindle every day to get ePub. I don't have an issue stripping off DRM, but I'm not going through the hassle of converting every book I own to mobi format when the nook works with all my epub and eReader format books without even touching the DRM unless I want to.
I can say without reservation that I would be a kindle owner now if Amazon would have supported ePub. However, I will not be locked into a single store, locked out of the public library or forced to convert all my books and that is the reality of kindle ownership.