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Originally Posted by CommanderROR
What I would really love to see is a Sony Reader with Mobipocket support.
Those 3-4 weeks of standby are something nobody has managed yet apart from Sony (and Jinke with some of the Hanlins) and it is a feature that I MUST have in any ereader device that I'd even consider spending money on.
Mobipocket is something that actually makes buying AND converting books so much easier and faster that it also is on my "must-have" list for any future device.
The Cybook is surely a nice device, but if they don't get it to do Sony-Reader battery life then I'd never consider it. I know the approx. 1 business week of Standby from the STAReBOOK...it's OK and much better than the Iliad, but it does not give the same kind of freedom a full month of charger-free life promises.
Of course, if the device had "instant-on" or at least a booting time <10 seconds I would not mind a lower Standby time that much, but as it stands the devices all take a while to get going after you turn them completely off and that makes it vitally important to me that you can leave it on 24/7 without fear of discovering that it ran out of juice just lying there doing nothing...
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You keep forgetting that I don't graze through my ebooks. I'm in a situation where I can read continuously for 8-12 hours per day. And I'm flipping pages fast enough to get through a 1,200 page (Georgia font, about 14pt) book inside of 10 hours. That's a hell of a lot of page flips per day! Now on the few occasions when I could restrain myself from reading, say by leaving the Cybook on overnight, the power drain was not measurable during that time.
So I'd say that an *average* reader, who leaves the Cybook on all the time, with spurts of reading between 30 minutes and 45 minutes at a stretch, maybe two-three hours per day, will probably see two weeks of battery life easy.
Derek