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Originally Posted by DaleDe
You can't get 20 hours of pleasure out of one of those on one charge.
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You can't get twenty hours on a portable DVD player when playing DVDs, but you're powering the drive, which is a huge cost, and you likely have the backlight on higher for a film than you would for text. Decoding video also has to be costlier in terms of power than displaying text, but that may not be a big deal. If such a device could be used for ebooks you're probably talking about getting three or four times the usage on a charge. Maybe not 20 hours, but quite possibly 8 or 10. So it's a charge-every-night device, instead of every few, as the eBookwise. Still workable.
On eBookwise cost, for at least the last two years the site has had a December sale. I paid $99 for mine, IIRC.