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Old 10-11-2010, 04:09 AM   #9
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Sounds about right then, if you are getting 2-3 weeks doing 2 hours a day that's giving you over 40 hours of active time.

I was able to read all 3 millennium novels (each are pretty long in print, something like 600 pgs) on one charge, and still had some battery remaining.

I still don't know why they say "read for 2-3 weeks" rather than using some standard such as page turns (other ereaders do this, usually they mention 8k-10k turns I think).

Had I used this thing in college when I used to pound journal articles I would have easily done a good 2-3 with that alone.

Perhaps off topic but,
Does anybody know if there are projects for @home automated scanning, or services to get books digitized? Commercial devices are really costly, and not available to the public. http://www.treventus.com/index_en.html (such as this) Our university library had a machine similar to this but it was only used for archiving older books. Really sucks having to haul around 8-10 textbooks that aren't searchable.
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