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Originally Posted by sarahsbloke
Funny how some posters write anything except how many reading hours they get on one charge!. Makes you wonder if B&N doesn't employ people to troll forums .... it's actually a very cost effective marketing method. My instructions to such employees would be, don't tell outright lies, but sidetrack negative issues and make personal attacks on posters who bring up such issues.
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Kindle 2 owners seem to claim a 24-30 hour reading on 1 charge.
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As your family has both why not just post how many reading hours you get on each device?
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Yes. I am a Barnes and Noble paid professional anti-Kindle troller.
I haven't sat down and counted how many hours each gets. I know my wife's kindle gets better battery life - it doesn't have a tiny LCD screen on it. Everyone knows the kindle has better battery life. I'd say it gets about 2-2.5x what the nook gets (which is what everyone says, pretty much).
Example: the Nook goes days before needing a recharge if it isn't being used much. I charged mine over the weekend. Unplugged it on Sunday morning, and took it on vacation with me (on airplane mode). I didn't use it at all (was reading a hardcover on the trip). I just checked the battery. It is at 80%. It's Wednesday morning (2 days and ~20 hours later).
I made no personal attacks. Simply stating, like many others have stated, you either need a new Nook or a new battery. Yours is BROKEN.
I'll quote you from before.
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Originally Posted by sarahsbloke
I have a Nook, but battery life is poor (about 10 hours reading), the OS is flaky. In the morning the battery might be dead, even with a full charge at night. It might not wake up from sleep and I have to pull and insert the battery while plugged into a PC. I just want to read books, the Nook doesn't always allow me to do that (it works properly about 28 days out of 30). The Kindle is far more stable (battery life about 30 hours) reading, and if choosing again I would go for a Kindle.
I don't live in the USA, I can't change it for a new one, many Nooks have problems and require returns to B&N. Not a problem if you live in the USA. I would say this device is really not suitable for residents of other countries
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No one else reports this kind of behavior requiring battery re-seating. I have not re-seated the Nook battery a single time. No one else reports it running from full battery to zero overnight when it isn't being used, either. No one else reports an 4-8-hour battery life. No one reports is regularly not resuming from sleep.
Yet you insist on trolling on every Nook thread on how the battery life sucks and how it's not a stable device. Your nook has a serious problem. That doesn't mean they all do this stuff.
You have a valid point about getting service outside of the USA. That's always a hazard of importing things. But the rest of it - you either have a bad battery, or you got a flaky unit that is in need of an RMA or replacement.